ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
DEATH IN A TBAJfCAE. At about 5.30 a.m. on Saturday, Mr. Robert M'Donald, a night watchman iu the Government Printing Office, died suddenly in a iramcar, near the Lainbton tfam terminus. Medical assistance was procured when M'Donald collapsed, but it was found that ho had died. In the afternoon an int(uest was opened by Mr. AV. G. Eiddell, S.M., but' it was adjourned till 9.30 h.m. to-day. The decensed was not married. Ho was about 50 years of age, and was on his irny home (after his night duty), when he collapsed. About 9 o'clock on Saturday morning a bov named Ifobert Pomfrey, uged 14,. residing at Korokoro, Petone, was riding a horse along the main street when the animal ran away with him. The boy, in endeavouring to jump off, got in front of the horse, and had his face trodden on, receiving bad elite on the eye and noso. Pomfrey was taken to a doctor's and attended to.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1432, 6 May 1912, Page 5
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163ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1432, 6 May 1912, Page 5
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