SCHOOLBOY’S DEATH
KILLED BY FALLING TREE EVIDENCE AT INQUEST From Our O ten Correspondent TAIHAPE, Monday. An inquest concerning the death of Leo Max O'Dea, aged 14 years, youngest son of Mrs. H. O’Dea, of Mangaweka, near Taihape, who was killed by a falling tree on his mother's property about two miles from Mangaweka, was held before the district coroner, Mr. J. P. Aldridge, at Mangaweka today. Eric O’Dea. elder brother of deceased, said that he and his brother Douglas were felling a tree on Saturday afternoon, and Leo was an interested spectator, standing about three yards away. The tree was a dead one, and was about 18 feet long and approximately 12in. thick. Witness called out that the tree was liable to fall any minute, and told Leo to retreat. He was in the act of complying with this request when the tree fell and struck him on the head. Dr. Sinclair arrived within three-quarters of an hour, but the boy was dead. The medical evidence was to the effect that death was due to a fractured skull. The coroner returned a verdict of accidental death.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 965, 7 May 1930, Page 10
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187SCHOOLBOY’S DEATH Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 965, 7 May 1930, Page 10
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