FATAL ACCIDENT AT OTAKI
(From our own Correspondent). A sad accident occurred on Wed** nesday morning at Otaki. It appears that the cook at the Telegraph Hotel got up at 5 o'clock to get some breakfast for a traveller, and it is supposed that in descending the staircase he slipped and fell. About half an hour afterwards the unfortunate man was discovered at the foot of the staircase by Michael Collef, ostler at the hotel, quite dead, with his head doubled up under his neck. The noise made by the deceased in falling was heard by a gentleman in the house, but was not thought by him to be any thing out of the common. Dr Hew son held a post mortem examination yesterday, and an inquest was held before J. Hadfield, Esq., J.P., the jury (Mr C. Thompson, foreman), returning a verdict of accidental death. The decoased, whose name was Joseph Nugent, was formerly employed on the Government steamers Stella and Hinemoa.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 61, 28 March 1879, Page 2
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163FATAL ACCIDENT AT OTAKI Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 61, 28 March 1879, Page 2
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