PICNIC TRAGEDY.
YOUNG WOMAN KILLED. HEAD STRIKES A BEAM. NELSON, January 2. Lucy Olsen (25), unmarried, met her death in tragic circumstances at Thorp yesterday, to which place she had accompanied a picnic parly from tlie town. While at a farmhouse she got into a trap standing in the shed, and two of the party, in a spirit of fun, got hold of the shafts and pulled the vehicle out, when deceased struck her head against a beam in the dbore way and dislocated her neck, dying in a few minutes.
At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4921, 4 January 1926, Page 2
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101PICNIC TRAGEDY. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4921, 4 January 1926, Page 2
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