A FEARFUL DEATH.
', Dunedin, July 28. On Sunday evening, Wm, Law, a tunnel man, who has been working on the Otago Central Railway for the past ten months, lost his life by falling over a precipice near wheie Barewood Creek empties into the Taieri River. On Sunday he wag drinking at several ely grog shanties at Deep Stream, and was seen going towards his home at Flat Stream, four miles distant, at about 7 o'clock lin the evening. Yesterday morning, Henry Clarke while riding along noticed a body at the foot of the cliff The track deceased' took was a moat dangerous one, ■' especially in the night time. Hia footsteps were traced to the spot where he stumbled and fell (headlong, apparently, for his head was much disfigured) a clear space of a hundred feet, and then he must have -fallen a further distance of two; hundred feet. Part of his watch-chain was hanging to his vest, and search being made, < the watch was found where he had struck at 'the first fall of a hundred feet. Deceased was '40 years of age, and unmarried.
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 163, 31 July 1886, Page 10
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185A FEARFUL DEATH. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 163, 31 July 1886, Page 10
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