The Recent Fatal Accident.
(Per Press Association.) Dunedin, May 3. At the inquest to*day on the boy Eelward Williamson, an apprentice killed in A. and T. Burfc's yard, the evidence showed that deceased and Duguin neither of whom had anything to do or knew anything about ifc, were swinging on. the orane. John Robertson, another apprentice, turned the handle and raised them up, wlien they jumped off. Ec - lowered the chain again. When the pair got on again he raised them again, when the jib started to come down and the boys were underneath it. , Robertson had taken the, pawl out of the wheel. The jury brought, in verdict of accidental death. v
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 258, 4 May 1895, Page 2
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