ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
A CHILD SUFFOCATED.
[Per Press Association. I
Auckland, December 18
Shortly before eleven o'clock this morning] Mrs F. Postlewaite, of Avondale, found her infant boy, who had been put to sleep in a cot, lying dead with ins head hanging through the bars of the cot. Death was apparently due to suffocation. It is surmised that the child got his head through the bars Aid, being unable to withdraw it, had got into such a position that suffocation ensued.
RUN OVER BY AN EXPRESS
Wellington, December 18
Edward Wilson, aged 29, a fireman on the steamer Remuera, was knocked down in a street on Tuesday and run over by an express. He was removed to the hospital suffering from internal injuries and he died to-day. He leaves a wife and a mother in England.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 93, 19 December 1913, Page 8
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136ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 93, 19 December 1913, Page 8
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