FATAL ACCIDENT.-MAN KILLED BY THE FALL OF A TREE.
Nelson, This day. A. fatal accident occurred in Brook-street last evening. Four men had been at, work felling a large willow tree, which was beingcut ten feet from the ground. The tree was growing close to the road, and ropes were fixed to prevent an accident. At dusk, the tree being cut through, it was doomed unsafe to leave it. Lanterns were procured, and the tree was brought down. Immediately afterwards a laboring man named Henry Thomas was found lying face down near a branch of the tree, and on the arrival of a doctor the unfortunate man was ascertained to be dead. He was 50 years of age, and leaves a wife and nine children. He had been working at the tree since leaving his own work.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3654, 31 March 1883, Page 3
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137FATAL ACCIDENT.-MAN KILLED BY THE FALL OF A TREE. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3654, 31 March 1883, Page 3
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