Fatal Accident.
DEATH OK A FORMER HL’NTLV RESIDENT. His many friends will read with regret the news of the death of Mr Fred W. Soppett who, as engine-driver at the local mines, and. Liter on, as proprietor of a river steamer, was well known in bluntly some fourteen to sixteen years ago. It appears that while loading coal on to trucks at the United Coal Company's private line which joins the mainline about two miles s >uth of Mercer, on Monday last, Soppett was knocked down by a shunting truck which passed Over him, his right arm being crushed up to the shoulder and his jaw broken. After being attended to by Dr. Wake lie was taken to the hospital at Auckland, where it was found that the condition of the injured man was too serious to permit of an operation being made. As a result of the injuries received and of the shock caused thereby, Mr Soppett passed quietly away early on Tuesday morning. His many old friends in Huntly extend their sincere sympathy to his wife and family.
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Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 48, 22 August 1913, Page 3
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180Fatal Accident. Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 48, 22 August 1913, Page 3
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