ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
SUDDEN DEATH. [Pan Pees* Association.! Dunedin, March 1. William Henry Waldwin Hanson, a ■abdriver, aged 28, and unmarired, was .'omul dead in his bod at an early hour lii.-s morning. At the inquest a verdict ,vas returned in accordance with medial testimony, that death was due to irombosis, a form of heart disease. TRACTION ENCiNE ACCIDENT. Napier, March ■!. A fatality occurred this morning at I'uketitiri, about 35 miles inland from Napier, whereby a single man named \llen Nicholson, 23 years old, lost bis [ife. Nicholson was driving a traction•ngiue, bringing two truck loads of :imber to (own, and when an embankuent, about a mile along the road, ivas reached, the steering-chain carried iway and the engine went over the ide, dragging a truck with it into a pulley I.2ft deep. The engine turned completely over. Nicholson was struck ui the head with the drawpin of the railer, the iron penetrating the head u'd causing instantaneous death.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1914, Page 7
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158ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1914, Page 7
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