ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
.SHOCKING .MISIIAI’ TO AN OLD •\IAN. A NATIVE HOY SHOT DC AD. (Fur Press Association,.) WESTPORT, lasi, niglit. Thomas 'filler, a mail about HD \ - is oi hgc. met with a distressing £.(_i uleiii at. the Harbor Hoard's quar--11 io-ilay. He was engaged loading stone on the truck by a crane, and a big block unshing and broke in hall, one part oi which fell on 'filler, who sustained two had compound, comminuted fractures of both jegs, and a bad compound fracture oi the right forearm. His possible Hie latter may have to be amputated. . . While working on Hrannia Koatl today, Michael O'Keefe, in the employ of the County Council, had the call of Ins leg pierced by a broken limb of a tree, and was taken to the hospital. , , , NAPIER, last night. A fatal shooting accident occurred at Omaha yesterday afternoon. Niko iMeihaiia, aged about IS, was engaged feeding a horse. lie picked up a rlln („ shoot at a bird and stumbled Tim gun discharged, and the full charge entered the boy’s neck, death . cine, instantaneous.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 903, 29 May 1903, Page 3
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