Shocking Fatal Accident
[p It CVITRD PRKSS AS>OTIATION.j Wkllincthn. September 27. On Saturday afternoon a distressing fatal accident oeourred at Dalefield a snwinUhng township in the Waira-r;t[>-.i. A lad named Alfred Watorson, a>rtnl 1 3 yuiira, the youngest son of Mr Johu Watei-sim, was engaged assisting one of his hmthers ia erecting a wire feucM. His brother had put a straiuing post in a hole and asked the lad Alfred to hold it. The post slipped and in falling struck Alfred on the left temple. The blow knocked him down with the back of his head on the sharp end of a stump of a tree, smashing it in. The boy died ten minutes after the accident.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 46, 28 September 1886, Page 3
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