ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
KILLED WHILE LOG HAULING. Br Telegraph.—'press Association. Thames, October 29. An elderly man named Robert Ritchie was killed while hauling logs in tho bush at Neave's Hill yesterday afternoon. An attachment to tho engine fell on top of bis head, breaking his neck. He was taken to tho hospital, where he died. He leaves a wife and seven children. DANNEVIRKIS FATALITY'. Dannenirke, October 29. The coroner's inquiry regarding the death of Qlonville Barclay, found dead oir Miller's Road on Wednesday evening last, returned a verdict, of death from fracture of the skull, caused by being struck by a motor-car driven by some person unknown whilst deceasod was under the influence of liquor. The evidence showed that deceased earlier in the evening on whiclf lio was killed was found lying on tho road inebriated. He explained to his discoverer that 1.0 had been drinking to drown his sorrows, having Gont one son to the Dardanelles and another into camp with the Maori reinforcements.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2606, 30 October 1915, Page 13
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165ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2606, 30 October 1915, Page 13
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