FATAL ACCIDENT.
A BOY KILLED.
About cix o'clock yesterday ersninf, a boy nrmed Wm. O'Brien, aged 10,. whoseparents live in Shorfclsnd-etreefc, fell into the Graving Dock, a depth of about! 15ft, and received injuries which subsequently resulted in his death at the District Hospital. During the afternoon the Kia Ora was being dockod, and as usual a crowd of small boys had collected to watch the process, and obtain the fish left in the dock after the water had been pumped out About six o'clock )which was some time after toe dock bad been pumped dry) yonng O'Brien scci* dentally slipped and fell to the bottom, hia head striking the etone somewhat heavily. He was picked up by some men who happaned to bo at the dock, and was found to be conscious, bat suffering from *on?e severe injuries. He said he wanted' to be takon home. He was carried to Mr Hall's chemiat shop in Lower Queen-street, and Mr Hall telephoned for a doctor, bob was unable to get one ab home. Th« lad was accordingly taken to his {ether's place in Shortlasd-etreefc in a cab, where he was subsequently attended to by a doctor, on whose advice be was removed to the hospital, death taking place at an early hour this morning from fracture of tbo skull. An inquest on the body of deceased was to have taken place thiß afternoon at the Hospital, before Dr. PhiLson, coroner.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 22, 27 January 1897, Page 4
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