BOY'S FRIGHTFUL END.
CRUSHED BY FALLING TELEGRAPH POLE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Mastcrtoii, Last Night. A distressing accident occurred at the junction of Morrison's Bush and Eeatiierston Road this afternoon, when a school boy named Leslie Munn, son of Mr. Munn, of Tauhercnikaii, came to a frightful end. The lad, who is nine years of age, was returning from school and stopped to watch telegraph linesmen erecting a iron bark pole by means of a motor derrick. When the pole was ready to be lowered a hoot in the derrick snapped. The whole fell with a crush, the pole falling on the boy, reducing him to pulp, death being instantaneous. An inquest will be held to-morrow.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1919, Page 5
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115BOY'S FRIGHTFUL END. Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1919, Page 5
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