ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
BACKBONE FRACTURED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Whangarei, Last Night. Extraordinary circumstances surrounding the death of Arthur Webber, until a few weeks ago residing at Pieton, were the subject of an enquiry today. The evidence showed that deceased was employed at Whangarei freezing works. On July 15 lie was working on a plank, which broke, and deceased fell ten feet on to some concrete. On August 10 he complained of pains in the stomach, and was sent to Whangarei hospital. Paralysis developed, and an operation took place, when it was found that deceased had cracked part of his backbone.. A verdict was returned that death was due to ascending inflammation of the spinal cord, the result of an injury received on July 15 by falling on a concrete floor. Deceased was a middleaged man, and has left a wife and four children, who only arrived in Whangarei since the accident.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1915, Page 5
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