FATAL COINCIDENCE.
/ KILLED BY A TRAM
(Per Press Association i
Auckland, May 21. A fatal accident occurred in Beach Road to-night, when Henry Alexander, a retired sea captain, aged 74 years, mot his death through being knocked over by a tram car. Some little lime ago Alexander fell off a tram car, receiving such injuries as necessitated his detention in the hospital, and this was his first time out. He' was vcrv short-sighted, especially at dusic. pra as he was crossing the road he tailed to notice the approaching car. Ha was knocked down. He was taken to a chemist’s shop, where a doctor pronounced life extinct.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 21, 22 May 1912, Page 6
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107FATAL COINCIDENCE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 21, 22 May 1912, Page 6
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