ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
1 LYSOL POISONING. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Saturday. Ernest Butler, aged 69, was found dead in bed this morning with an empty lysol bottle beside him. A PAINFUL EXPERIENCE. Christehurch, Last Night. Alfred Lawrcy, 03 years of age, was brought to the hospital this morning after several days' suffering with a crushed leg. He was employed at Halswell, felling trees, by himself, and last Monday a tree which hung on to another fell, pinning him to the ground. It took Lawrey three hours to extricate himself, but he could not walk, and lay for a day and a half in the open air, no one coming near him. His cooees were at lengtn heard by John Murphy, a farmer, who took Lawrey to his (Lawrey's) tent, where Lawrey, thinking his injury slight, attended to himself, Murphy sending food. This morning Lowrey's leg was much worse, and a constable brought him to the hospital, where his right leg was found to be shattered.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 179, 16 December 1912, Page 5
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165ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 179, 16 December 1912, Page 5
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