SUDDEN DEATH OF SHIFTMAN
FOUND IN MINE BY • COMPANION (P.A.) GPLYMOUTH, Jan. 11, The sudden death of a shiftman in the Liverpool State Mine early this morning idled both the Liverpool and Strongman mines to-day. About 500 employees of both mines returned home when the news was given them on the way to work of the death of a fellow unionist. He was Henry Benjamin Gunn, aged 58, married, and was on night shift. Ho was found dead by another shiftman at 4.30 this morning. Gunn had worked in the mine for many yeals, and was on Ids'- second shift for the year when his death occurred. He was found lying across a rope road in the main Anderson Dip section of the mine by bis working companion, John Haddock, whom he passed only a few minutes previously walking to another section of the mine.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 78, 12 January 1949, Page 2
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