SHOCKING TRAGEDY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1727, 19 June 1917, Page 3

SHOCKING TRAGEDY.

MAX KILLED AT KOSEXEATH. A -;,d remilt of Saturday's rain -Po-r,I wa- D,e death of Mr William |‘earn- Fitzgerald under iiartieiiiarlv tragie eireumstanee-. says (he Post. De, with ids wife and family, lived in a five-roomed house, 27, t'reseent mad, Roseneath, About 5.30 p.m. he heard indications that a hank a! (he side of the house wagivlng 'wav, and he went out to saa what could be done. Immediate, 1 , afterwards his wife heard (lie bank eoihip-e, and rushing out found oia l In- hail he:-n pinned against an mi! r ,p.'ehn"; I'tdinney at the sidi* oi ' : m | i.-ie-e and almosi eoveivd v.iih brick.-. concrete aild earlji. Assislanee wa-; obtained with all .-peed, hip hy that time it was 100 bile .and Dr Young and Dr Elliott could only pronounce life to be extinct. Mac la--k of extricating the body was difficult and JamrcroUs, Ullimalely I he -er\ in - of -killed labourers, under Mr Ward, builder, were obtainei], Imt. i| wa.-- not until 1 o'clock on Sinn I:iv morning- that the body was dug i,ui and taken |o Dm morgue. Deceased, who wa- 12 \ ear-- ol age. eras empUved a- a foreman by Me-si's R. ; ml E. Tingey. painters. Manner- Street. Tlie greatest sympathy is felt for Mr.- Fitzgerald, whose I'idesi of seven children is 10 veal'- ami the voiingv-i three.