CASUALTIES.
FATAL TRAP ACCIDENT.
(press association telegram.) ASHBURTON, July 8. As threo men were driving home from Ashburton to Fairfield (four miles cut) last evening, their trap capsized, owing to a bicycle which was in it falling at the horse's heels. The driver sustained a few scratches, and Joseph Holloway was badly bruised and out, arid had to be taken to tho hospital, while a third man, named Robert George Rose, although damaged by the fall and ordered to go to the hospital, refused to do so. Ro-ie returned home to Fairfield, and died at an early hour this morning. At the inquest, before Mr R. Alcorn, Acting Coroner, the jury returned a verdict that deitli was due to hemorrhage inside the skull.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12851, 9 July 1907, Page 7
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