MINER’S DEATH
FALL FROM HOTEL WINDOW. ACCfDENT ATTRIBUTED TO SLEEP-WALKING. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, This Day. Fatal injuries were received by Henry John Thomas Kearns, a miner, of Deen Creek, agec| 65, whpq hp fell 15 feet from a top window of the Cam vastown Hotel at 5.30 yesterday morning. Although his leg was fractured, he managed to crawl back tp the door of the hotel apd apqnsp the occupants. He was brought, to hospital and died a few hours later. It is thought 111.? accident was due to sleep-walking. An inquest will be held.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1939, Page 8
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95MINER’S DEATH Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1939, Page 8
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