FATAL ACCIDENT.
A man named Henry Aitken, engaged with two other men named Alexander Duncan Robinson and Andrew Laurie, working a threshing machine near Duntroon, met with his death to-day under peculiar circumstances. The three men had been in Duntroon on the 16th inst., and after taking some drink, they engaged an express from Mr. Smith and drove off to catch the mill, After driving some little distance, Aitken fell off, and his mate thinking he was drunk, and that nothing was wrong with him otherwise, took him into the mill, and laid him in it. The following morning they visited him, and as he refused to come down from the mill, they left him there. On again going to him yesterday morning, Aitken complained of being hurt about the back of his neck, and not being able to move, they lifted him down. He was brought into the Hospital last evening, and attended to, but he expired this afternoon at half-past three o'clock; An inquest will be held.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1249, 19 April 1880, Page 2
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