BLENHEIM.
This day,
A sad accident happened late yesterday afternoon. It appears that a little boy, aged three and a half years, son of Mr Sinclair, a gentlemen who is at present on a short visit to Blenheim, was playing with some children in a shed belonging to the railway authorities. In this shed four heavy railway gates were stood up, one against the other, alongside the wall. The little fellow tried to climb up the gates, against the wishes of the other children who were playing with him, and
was climbing ou when the gate fell over on him and crushed his head, scattering his brains about the floor. Assistance was immediately obtained; but it was found that the boy was quite dead. Sinclair came to Blenheim only within the past week for the purpose, of replacing an officer of the National Bank during his absence on leave.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3667, 27 September 1880, Page 2
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149BLENHEIM. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3667, 27 September 1880, Page 2
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