HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1346, 5 January 1905, Page 4

HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.

BOY FALLS ON A SPIKED FENCE Sydney, Doc 27. The death of a boy, Edward Thomas Petrie, aged nine, who was fatally injured at Leichhardt through falling off a roof of a poroh on to a Bpikod iron fence, was the subject of an inquiry by the City Coroner this morniog. Constance Petrie, a sister of the deoeased, gavo evidence - that she and her brothor paid a visit to their Bunt, Mrs. Henderson, at Leichhardt: At about four o’clock, shortly after she hRd givon' her brother permission to go out and play in the front', she heard a knock and her namo called twice. Hastening to the front she saw her brother, who told her that ho had hurt his side, and she could see a large hole from whioh the blood was flowing. He said he was get ting oh to the roof of the porch when an ornament, of whioh he had hold, gave way, end ho fell on to the Bpiked iron railings.' She called in some neighbours, and afterwards took her brother to a doctor.

Eliza Hill, an aunt, with whom the deoeased lived, said that her nephew, both of whose parents had died, was a great boy for climbing, and that she had a lot of trouble in preventing him from olimbing.. Dr, J. 8, Davis Btated that the lad,when admitted to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital was oollapsed, and suffering from peritonitis, the result of a wound in the abdominal wall. He was operated upon, and it was found that the stomach had been punctured. The child died six hour's after the operation. The ooroner found that the boy’s death was the result of an aooidonb,