ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2766, 22 March 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

BOY’S LEG BROKEN

A cyclist ran into a lad named Gordon Stone- aged 13, near the. public school, about noon yesterday, with the result that the hoy had one of his legs broken near the knee. The lad was taken into Dr. Coker’s residence, where the limb was set. DROWNING CASE FEARED. (Pick Biucss Association. | AUCKLAND, March 20. The circumstances surrounding the disappearance of a man named Frank Hill, aged 40, who was last seen aboard the yacht Katie at Mechanic’s Bay, Parnell, on Saturday forenoon, point to the probability of a drowning -fatality. Hill, who was in the employ of Mr Edward Hodgson, coal and explosive merchant, Parnell, boarded the yacht at about 10 a.m. ion Saturday for the purpose of proceeding to Maraetai, about 16 miles from Auckland, for a cargo of explosives. Mr Hodgson upon being informed on Saturday afternoon that the craft was still at its anchorage about 400 yards from Wynyard pier, went out to tlie vessel to ascertain from Hill the cause of his delay in starting. The only traces Mr Hodgson, could find of his employee, however, were his coat, hat and pipe. No tidings of the -missing man have com e to hand. Mr Hodgson states that when he last saw Hill on hoard the yacht he was hauling in the cable chain, and he fears that he must have slipped and fallen overboard. The depth of water at the anchorage is lift.

TWO SUDDEN DEATHS

THAMES, March 21

Two sudden deaths occurred here today. Peter Harvey Curtis, an old age pensioner, was found dead in a room in his house at Ivaraka Creek at noon today. Deceased, who was 70 years of age, had apparently been dead some hours. He' was last seen alive yesterday. Some seizure of heart or brain was the cause of death. In the afternoon John Melsaaes, aged 55, was reading a paper in the Lady Cowan Hotel when he suddenly collapsed. Assistance was rendered, but the man was dead. Deecased was identified with the mining industry, and was well known on the goldfields. FOUND IN THE RIVER. WANGANUI, March 21. The body of the young woman, Sutton, who has been missing since Tuesday, was found this morning floating in the river. At the inquest on Miss Sutton, whose body was fo'und in the river this morning, a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned. FOUND DEAD IN STABLE. PALMERSTON N., March 21. A man named Nils Petersen, aged 70, was found dead in a stable attached to ■v premises at Stoney Creek this morning. The body was fairly clothed. The death apparently took place yesterday. OLD MAN COMMITS SUICIDE. NEW PLYMOUTH, March 21. An Imperial pensioner, Francis Eastfield Bilton, aged 79, committed suicide 'by cutting hig throat this morning. Both he and his wife had been drinking heavily lately. He leaves a large family. CHILD BURNED TO DEATH. CARTERTON, March 21. At the inquest on the Ji-year-old daughter of W. J. Macaulay, of Carrington Settlement, the evidence showed that she was burned to death through her night clothes of flannelette catching fire. The jury added a- strong rider to the verdict condemning the use of flannelette, by which many lives were sacrificed, and asking the Government to impose a prohibitive duty in the cause of humanity on a material denounced as dangerous to life and inimical to health, and which should be banished from every household.

MAN KILLED ON RAILWAY LINE

DUNEDIN, March 21. John Horan, a middle-aged married man, living with his family at- Caversliam, and: employed as a ganger on the Mosgicl duplication works, was knocked down by the engine of the 1.20 p.m. train- from Dun-edin to-day. It appears that he was talking to another ganger (John Elliott) close to the Kensington passenger siding, and they were standing behind some trucks, Elliott said. “Look out, Jack, she’s coming, and Horan, thinking a shunting engine tv as approaching the trucks, slipped on to the main lino, and was cut down bv the engine. He was earned some thirty feet and picked up unconscious with a fractured skull. He died at 4 p.m. without regaining consciousness.

THROWN FROM tHORSE AND KILLED.

INVERCARGILL, March 21. James Miller, a well-known farmer of Mossbiirn district, was thrown from lus horse on Thursday, and died in the Riverton hospital on Sunday. An inquest is to be held.