SHOCKING ACCIDENT IN BRISBANE. Killed by a Lift.
A. dreadful accident happened ab Brisbane on the premises of M'Donald, Paterson, smd Fit/geiald, solicitors. The building is five stories, with a luggage lift at the rear, but the lift is in an unfinished state. The lif tway consistsof tour uprights, braced bogebherwibh beams, while the lift itself is a mere platform. A young man named Charles Robert Finlay, the bookkeeper, was ascending in the lift, when by somo means his head gob jambod between the lift and one ot the cross beams. His head stopped the lift and it was some time before the accident was noticed. Efforts were then made to extricate him by sawing through the beam and fche lift then continuing its ascent caused him bo fall to the ground, a distance of about; 30 feeb. When the body was examined, it was found that the jaw was broken, the skull fractured, and the neck dislocated. Finlay was very popular in athletic circles.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 289, 11 August 1888, Page 5
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165SHOCKING ACCIDENT IN BRISBANE. Killed by a Lift. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 289, 11 August 1888, Page 5
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