A FATAL FALL
AN ERDERLY SEAMAN’S DEATH. BY Telegraph.—Peess Association. Auckland, January 24. A fatality occurred at Princes’ Wharf this afternoon, when an able seaman on the Union Steamship Company’s steamer, Kanna, Wm. Ogle, single, aged about 60, fell into the water between the the vessel/and the wharf. Although he was rescued after being in the water only two or three minutes, he was dead when examined by a doctor shortly afterwards. Ogle signed on the ship’s articles only this morning. The vessel was preparing to leave for Noumea, Surprise, and Walpole Islands, and in company with others of the crew he was loading stores when the accident occurred. Packages were being carried from the wharf to the poop without the aid of gangway, and in stepping on to the wharf Ogle slipped and fell into the water.
The chief officer and two others immediately climbed down ti the water’s edge and brought the man to the wharf. There were no marks on the body, and it is believed that death was due to shock.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 99, 25 January 1928, Page 6
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175A FATAL FALL Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 99, 25 January 1928, Page 6
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