MAN SUFFOCATED.
HAYSTACK FAIXS OK HIM. STRANGE FATALITY AT TURUA. (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) THAMES SOUTH, this day. Thomas Perry, a single man, believed to be about 57 years of age, employed by Mr. A J. Heaseman, farmer, of Turua, Hauraki Plains, was killed under extraordinary circumstances yesterday afternoon about 4 o'clock.
He -spas getting hay from a stack to feed animals when the stack fell over on him.
When he was missed, his employer made a search, and, seeing the fallen stack, had it removed. He found Perry's body underneath the stack, lying face downwards, and suffocated. Perry was a particularly good farmhand. *
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 221, 19 September 1927, Page 8
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103MAN SUFFOCATED. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 221, 19 September 1927, Page 8
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