FATALITIES AT RAILWAY WORKSHOPS
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, September 2. Two fatal accidents occurred this morning at the Hutt railway workshops. Frederick Albert Jones, aged 28. single, of 135 Richmond street, Petone, was crushed against a building by a rake of trucks. He was driving an electric scooter at the time. William Noel Cowdry, aged 23, single, of 35 Awa road, Miramar, a blacksmith’s striker, climbed to open a skylight and fell through, about 25 feet, to the ground head first on to a pile of iron. Both fatalities occurred about 8.30 a.m.
FATAL JUMP FROM BUILDING (P.A.) AUCKLAND, September 2. A verdict that the deceased committed suicide while insane was returned by the Coroner, Mr F. K. Hunt, at the inquest into the death of a married man, Maurice Oliver Braddock, aged 28, whose wife lives in Grey Lynn. The deceased jumped from one of the top floors of a city building on August 11, suffering injuries from which he died before reaching hospital.
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Southland Times, Issue 24839, 3 September 1942, Page 4
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163FATALITIES AT RAILWAY WORKSHOPS Southland Times, Issue 24839, 3 September 1942, Page 4
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