ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2698, 31 December 1909, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

CAUGHT IN SHAFTING

fPicit Pkf.sh Absociation.l CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 30. A man named Jame B Steele, employed in a quarry at Hornby, was caught in the, belting of some stonecrushing machinery, and was whirled round by the shafting. When he was picked up it was found that he had sustained severe injuries, several of his rigs being broken, He vfas conveyed to the hospital as quickly as possible, but died soon aft«r admission.

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an inquest touching the death >.rles Mussen, 66 years of age, an ■<? pensioner, who wa s . found >d in the river at . Avonside v morning, William Sincock it he saw deceased about ?k on the evening before the found. He was apparently/ mov-ntvl v He, appeared ,J/ 'or. TbE '■ foui^ d

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James Mawson. 20 years of age/ shot in the thigh accidentally, jrwell, to-day, and Avas brought tie-, the hospital by Dr. Nathan, in his/, mow car. ' Mawson Avas standing; near a friend avlio Avas endeaA'oring/ to discharge a rifle, but the rifle /had jammed, and Avas eventually l;aid down. At that moment it Avent off,/ and Mawson received the bullet in/his leg at very short range. An operation to extract the bullet Avas performed this afternoon. /. A DANGEROUS I/ATENT.

About '9.30 a.m. yesterday Thomas Marson, a farm laborer, employed at Spreydon, was on a haystack stacking hay with a patent hsy—lifter, when the anchor which pole down gave way. The pole immediately flew, up, and hit Marson 'bn the back of the head, killing him/instantaneously. At the inquest, the/ evidence of William Woods, who was/ working with Marson (who was a manried man), showed that the anchor had' become loosened by re-; cent rain ,ancy the pole had sprung up with fprce. A verdict wa s returned that deceased was killed through being struck on the head wit’ a ha.y-lifter/ t . . .. DROWNED ON BEACH. ~/ OAMARU, Doc. The body ,of a middle-aged v dressed/ in, dark clothes, and ’ gloves/and boots, has been to sandjy beach south of Oarnar Lafcr. —The body found identified as that of Lill ; married woman. DROWNED IN'EIGHT HAWr Plerhert John Bull, aged about 30, singb a jiond sixteen inclie by yesterday mornii posed to have fa) suffering from an. he wa,s subject. BOTH 1 Mr.. Harry ’ with a very *' day, at the near the i “Hawke’s ing the r; gaged at animal in th was * bus r , his har ha il