ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
DEATH FROM SHOCK
By Telegraph—Press Association Wellington, Last Night, A waterside worker, named Robert, Henderson, fell into the harbor and died from shock early this morning. He was attending to the lines of a. hulk, and and in order to facilitate operations, apparently, he climbed up on the railing, a sudden gust of wind causing him {•-• overbalance. Another watersider with a rope hauled the insensible man on to the hulk. After lirst aid had been rendered, Henderson regained consciousness and was able to say he was all right. However, early this morning he took a turn for the worse, and was taken to the hospital, where the authorities pronounced life extinct, and that lie was prrhahly dead when taken into the ambulance.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 August 1917, Page 5
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124ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, 15 August 1917, Page 5
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