YOUNG MAN KILLED.
STRUCK BY A FULL BARROW. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, uast Night. A young man named Phillip Henry Turnbull, employed at the General Post Office, residing with his parents at Main Road, Mornington, was killed while engaged in excavating a section in Mornington on Saturday. Deceased was 23 years of age. He was carrying out excavations, being assisted by William Arthur Thomas, who was accompanied by his two children. Thomas saw a bank giving way and shouted a warning to Turnbull. The bank collapsed and the falling earth struck the barrow on which Turnbull was engaged filling. The barrow bounced back and fractured Turnbull’s skull. The Thomas children were both pinned down in the debris, but they were extricated uninjured. A doctor was called in, but on arrival could only pronounce Turnbull dead.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 June 1922, Page 5
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