ACCIDENTAL DEATH.
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) THAMES, Wednesday. A verdict of accidental dcatli, due to being crushed between a railway truck and a motor lorry at Kopu on Wednesday last, was returned at the inquest to-dav concerning the death of Rex Hamilton Watts. Evidence was given that Watts, who was employed by the Kopu Lime Company, met his death when a railway truck was being towed by a motor lorry alongside a loading ramp at Kopu railway yards. Neither the driver of the truck nor the other man in the cab actually saw how Watte came to-be between th® vehicles* • -
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 75, 30 March 1939, Page 19
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