HEAD SPLIT IN TWO.
AN ENGINEER'S DEATH. Waipukurau, October 3. Timothy John Downing, aged 40, a shift engineer, employed at the Waipukurau Borough pumping station, was killed at 8.30 this morning as a result, evidently, of using a steel bar .which became entangled in the clutch of the pump, and being propelled around, split his head in two. Death was instantaneous. His fellow engineer came into the pumping room immediately afterwards and saw Downing lying on the floor dead. He leaves a widow land a child a week old.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3547, 7 October 1926, Page 2
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89HEAD SPLIT IN TWO. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3547, 7 October 1926, Page 2
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