ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
Press Association
CHRISTCHURCH, last night.
A boy, 17 years of age, named Leslie Beswick, was experimenting with an acetylene generator at Hornby this afternoon, when it suddenly exploded, and a portion struck him on the head, fracturing his skull and inflicting other injuries, from which he died.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2087, 23 May 1907, Page 3
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