ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
DROWNED IN A SHAFT. By Telegraph.— Press Association. Invercargill, Last Night. At an inquest at Round Hill on the bodies of Joseph Bates and Frank Smith, killed through the rising of sludge in a mining shaft, the jury returned the following vcrdict:~"That Joseph Bates and F. Smith met their deaths as the result of drowning caused by the blocking of the suction pipe, and that there was no blame attachable to anyone." They wished to place on record Smith's noble conduct in giving his life to save his mate. The following rider was added:— "That no working in sinking a second lift should take place at night in dangerous ground." A SAD END. Ashburton, Saturday. James Stephens, a storekeeper at Stavely, and for thirty-flve yean a resident of that district, met his death in a very sad manner last nighlj, He was found dead this morning in bit garden, and black and blue with bruises, Bear a water-wheel which generates elec tricity in his house. It is surmised that last night he caught his foot in a rut an& fell against the "revolving belt, was entangled therein, and beaten to death.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 284, 24 April 1911, Page 5
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194ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 284, 24 April 1911, Page 5
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