FATAL ACCIDENTS.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. W G Butler, plasterer, a married man with a small family, fell under a tramcar in Cuba-street last evening while alighting and was shockingly mangled. Both his thighs were broken in several places, his right arm fractured and he sustained internal injuries'. He died at eight o'clock this mOrninff- DUNEDIN, this day. John O'Brien, baker, was killed at Eough Ridge, Central Otago. It is supposed that while returning from delivering bread on Saturday he was thrown out of his cart His dead body was. found on Sunday morning on the road, and a tew hundred yards f*J** c*e * °* the horse was found with the.cart capsized and the shaft broken At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 74, 29 March 1899, Page 2
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