A FATAL ACCIDENT.
[By Telegraph—Press Association.] ‘ Napier, last night. An inquest on the man Michael Coakloy, killed while lie was working a Cambridge roller at Puketapu, was held yesterday. The evidence showed that deceased had been driving a team of three horses attached to the roller, and that the animals bolted. The accident was not seen, but the horses were observed running- away, and were caught, and the station-manager for whom Coakley worked then went in search of the latter, finding him on the ground in an unconscious condition. The victim was suffering from a severe fracture of the skull. It-is conjectured that, on the horses bolting, deceased fell,backwards from the seat of the toiler to the ground, and, being a heavy man of about 17 stone, sustained a fracture as stated. Coakley was at once taken to the hospital, where he died soon affer admission, never having recovered consciousness. A verdict of “accidental death” was returned, no blame being attached to anyone.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 116, 27 May 1901, Page 2
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