ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
Press Association. Christchurch, January 22. Joseph Tanner, single, aged GO, a bootmaker, fell from a bicycle in the street last night, and was picked up dead. He was learning to ride, and was being assisted by a man named George Burt. It is supposed deceased had a weak heart. Ashbubtok, January 22. An inquest was held to-day concerning the death of W. S. Morrisby, of Ashburton Porks, who was found hanging from a rafter in his hut. The jury returned a verdict that death was duo to strangulation self-inflicted while in a state of unsound mind. Wellinqton, January 23. At the inquest on the body of D. C. Hatfield, who fell off the platform of a railway carriage near Otaki and broke his neck, a verdict of accidental death was returned’ no blame being attachable to anyone.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8721, 23 January 1907, Page 2
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140ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8721, 23 January 1907, Page 2
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