FATALITY AT MANGAPEEHI.
MAN'S NECK BROKEN,
A fatal accident occurred at Mangapeehi on Thursday evening, a railway surfaceman named Matthew O'Leary sustaining a broken neck. It appears the man walked up the railway in the evening about-eight o'clock and fell over a culvert, a distance of about 20 feet. A post-mortem examination by Dr Mcßae, of Te Kuiti, disclosed the fact that the unfortunate man's neck was broken. An inquest was held' yesterday by Mr J. Boddie, Coroner, when a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony was returned.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 737, 16 January 1915, Page 5
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89FATALITY AT MANGAPEEHI. King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 737, 16 January 1915, Page 5
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