ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
Press Association. DUNEDIN, February 3. Neil Johnstone succumbed _ in tho hospital this morning from injuries sustained on Saturday through being knocked down by an engine at tho foot of Hanover street. He was a surfaceman and did not hear the engine shunting owing to tho heavy wind. AUCKLAND, February 3. The Inspector of Police has received Word that a man named Samuel Taylor, sixty-nine years of ago, was found drowned in a well at Maungaturoto on Sunday morning. At an inquest held in the morning a verdict of accidentally drowned was returned. DUNEDIN, February 3. The inquest on tho body of John Muirhead, who was killed on Friday, was concluded to-day. Dr Gordon MacDonald gave evidence that the primary cause of the accident was asphyxia, caused by a small stone lodging in deceased’s windpipe, but the primary causo of death was loss of blood caused by injuries to the lungs through the cart passing rv I■' •••• A a diet to that chert was xetuiuiwd.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8345, 4 February 1913, Page 7
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167ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8345, 4 February 1913, Page 7
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