FATALITIES.
(Per Press Association.) Wellington, last night. A cook named Spencer, a widower, aged about 60, who was accompanying the Ashnrst volunteers to Masterton to take aart in the Easter events, was killed at Masterton. He was olimbng on to the volunteers’ baggage truck, when he slipped and fell under the wheels, one passing over his chest and head. He was removed to the hospital, where bo died. A verdict of accidental death was returned.
On Saturday Louis Allen McLean, of Napier, assistant guard on the NapierWellington mail train, burst a blood vessel when the train was between Hakanui and Eketahuna, and died before reaching Eketahnna.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GIST19050425.2.17
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1437, 25 April 1905, Page 2
Word Count
106FATALITIES. Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1437, 25 April 1905, Page 2
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in