FATAL ACCIDENT.
(PKESB ASSOCIATION TELEGBAJI.) BLENHEIM, July 9. A fatal accident occurred in the Seddon railway yard this morning, resulting in the death of John Mervyn Bosselman, aged thirty-four, a farm hand. Bosselman was unloading an iron bath from a railway truck to a dray when the three-horse team took fright and bolted. He attempted to stop the horses at the gate, but was crushed against the gate posts and expired almost immediately. It is understood he was a single man, his father residing at Nelson.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19667, 10 July 1929, Page 4
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