TRAGEDY AT MINE
man Hilled by fall of EARTH. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, May 21. A young man. James Williamson, aged 29, was killed on Saturday afternoon at Upper Nevis when a fall of earth crushed him against the iron casting of the elevator shaft of his private mining claim. There were no eye-witnesses to the accident, the body being found by a man employed by Mr Williamson when he returned to the elevator shaft after working on another part of the claim. Mr Williamson received a broken neck and a fractured skull, death being mstai.taneous. At an inquest held this morning a verdict of accidental death was returned. Mr Williamson was a single man and resided with his widowed mother near the claim.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1939, Page 9
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