ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
BACKBONE FRACTURED. I'er Press Association. Whangarei, August 111. Extraordinary circumstances surrounding the death of Arthur Webber, until a lew weeks ago residing at Picton, were the subject of an inquiry today. The evidence showed that de- I ceased was employed at Whangarei freezing works. On July 15, he was working on a plank, which broke, and deceased fell ten feel onto some concrete. On August 10 be complained of pains in the stomach, and was soul to Whangarei hospital. Paralysis developed, and an operation took place, when it was found that deceased bad cracked part of his backbone. A verdict was returned that death was due to ascending inflammation of the spinal cord, the result of an injury received on July Lo by falling on a concrete floor. Deceased was a mid-dle-aged man. and has left a wife and four children, who only arrived in Whangarei since the accident.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3, 1 September 1915, Page 3
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151ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3, 1 September 1915, Page 3
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