KILLED BY TREE
STRUCK WHEN BEING FELLED MAN’S SEINE FRACTURED. I'er Pi*ess Association. AUCKLAND, November 22. Through being struck by a falling ticu, William James Lewis, of Bright street, Eden terrace, was killed shortly before midday on Saturday while working with his son in his garden at Remuern. Lewis and two other men had sawn through the tree, but in falling it 'became entangled in tiie branches or a neighbouring tree, and Die son climbed up to cut it free. He limited a warning that tho tree was joining down, but the father evidently Misjudged the wav it would fall, for ''i the descent a limb struck him on i lie neck, fracturing his spine and msing death almost instantaneously. Stanley Lewis was swept from iho r ‘o at the same time and was thrown •• ith some force against a fence, the ••'*>w rendering him unconscious. When : ,e recovered some moments nftcr•'dv he found his father lying dead. An inquest was held on Sunday, and t verdict of accidental death wa r, re- : un°rl.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12611, 23 November 1926, Page 12
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174KILLED BY TREE New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12611, 23 November 1926, Page 12
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