FALLING CASE.
SHIP'S OFFICER LOSES LEG. [THE PRESS Special Service] DUNEDIN, January 18. Mired Shepherd, aged 21 years, an officer on board the Trevorian, was admitted to the hospital to-day suffering from a compound fracture of the left leg and a simple fracture of tho right leg sustained through a case falling on him from a sling in the ship's hold. He was operated on, and the left leg was amputated, but he died during the evening.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18903, 19 January 1927, Page 8
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77FALLING CASE. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18903, 19 January 1927, Page 8
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