Sad Fatal Accident.
[Wellington Paper.] We regret to have to record a very sad and fatal accident which happened or. Sunday to a little boy between four and five years of age, named Sydney Ready, a son of Sergeant Eeady, of this^ city. At about 5.30 p.m. he was playing on the reclaimed land near the Railway Wharf with his brother, aged 11, and two boys of about the same age, named Victor Howard and William Davis. It appears that the boys began climbing about some railway trucks on' the line there, when the two last-men-tioned lads set one of the. trucks m motion. The deceased was knocked down, and one of the wheels passed over his neck. The poor little fellow never moved, and was picked up 'by Thomas Ennis, of Willis^street, who ran with him to Dr (trace's house m Molesworth. street. It was there found that the neck bad been dislocated, so that death must have been instantaneous.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 32, 3 January 1883, Page 2
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