FATAL ACCIDENTS.
YOUNG MAN ELECTROCUTED.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Last Night. Robert Stewart Reid, aged 22, employed at the Half-Way Bush transformer station, met his death this morning at the works. He was found dead by his wife,, having apparently accidentally come in contact with a live wire and been electrocuted. CRUSHED TO DEATH. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) GORE, Last Night. Joseph John Jenkins, aged 31 years, was riding cin one of several trucks drawn by a traction engine in the main street on Saturday night. He fell under the first truck and was crushed to death. He was a butcher by trade, but latterly been employed as a labourer.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10254, 5 June 1911, Page 4
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109FATAL ACCIDENTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10254, 5 June 1911, Page 4
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