SHOCKING DEATH.
[RY TELEUII VPH.— I'KKSS ASSOCIATION.] Duni:din, Tuesday. On Sunday evening William Law, a- tunnel man, who hat. been woiking on the Otago Central Railway for the Lust ten mouths, lost his life by falling over :\ piecipice near wheio Barewood Crock empties into the Taieri River. On Sunday e\ ening he was drinking at several sly-giog shanties at l)eep Stream, and was seen going towards his home at Flat Stream, four miles distant, at about seven in the evening. Yesterday morning Henry Clark, while ridmtr along, noticed a body at the foot of the cliif. The track deceased took was a most dangerous one, especially in the night time. His footsteps were traced to the spot where he stumbled and fell (headlong, apparently, for his head was much disfigured) a clear space of 100 feet, and then he must have fallen a further distance of 200 feet. Part of his watch chain was found hanging to his vest, and search being made, the watch was found where he had struck at the first fall of 100 feet. Deceased was 40 years of age and unmarried.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2193, 29 July 1886, Page 3
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186SHOCKING DEATH. Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2193, 29 July 1886, Page 3
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