ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 33, 7 October 1915, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

LABORER’S DEATH AT AWAKING. A man mimed Milo Henry I 1 itzpatrirk, who hud boon working on the roads in Awakino district for some weeks past, died suddenly in Awakino township yesterday. The Noavs 10 ports that in the morning he decided, for some reason, not to go to work, and a little later on he wa s seen to he more or less under the influence of liquor. At noon Fitzpatrick was noticed leaning over a log in the township, apparently asleep, hut an hour later he was found to ho dead. Fitzpatrick was a. stranger to the district, and the police have no information as tii his antecedents or who his relatives arc. He was about 35 years of ago, oft. 2in. in height and of slight build, w ifh black hair and moustache, and blue eyes. An inquest war, to have been held before a jury at Awakino to-day.