FATALITIES
TWO INQUESTS. e '(Per Press Association:. 1 ) v g. Dunedin, last night. At the inquest touching the death of Walter Richard Birmingham, who was killed on Saturday when attempting to board a moving train, being at the time somewhat under the influence of liquor, the evidence showed that deceased caught hold of the stanchtion of the carriage, but was swung round. Gibb, coaching foreman, jumped on the brakß van, and applied the brakes. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death through trying to board a train while in motion, and that no blame was attachable to anyone. It was also decided that Foreman Gibb shou.d be given credit for his prompt action in applying the brake. Deceased, who wa3 about 37 years, had stated that he had no relatives in the colony. He was a native of Birmingham. At the inquest on William Fyfe, who died in the hospital after having his arm terribly lacerated in the scucther of a flax dressing machine, he being a partner in the mill, a verdict was returned that deceased j met his death from injuries received while scutching flax which was too damp, ho alone being to blame.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1433, 18 April 1905, Page 3
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197FATALITIES Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1433, 18 April 1905, Page 3
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