DEATH OF LABOURER

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 136, 5 March 1929, Page 13

DEATH OF LABOURER

INJURIES END FATALLY

By Telegraph—Press Association.

Dunedin, March 4.

While working on the wharf this morning, Thomas Long, a married man, aged 53, received injuries which necessitated his immediate removal to his home. A doctor was summoned to attend him at his home at 10.30 a.m., and after diagnosing his trouble the medical man left, saying he would call again on Thursday. Early in the afternoon Long took a turn for the worse, and at about 1 p.m. ‘the doctor was again summoned, but before he arrived the man was dead! It appears that Long had been engaged on some particularly heavy work on the waterfront, in the execution of which he strained himself to such an extent that the pain in his breast demanded that he should cease/work. An inquest was opened at the residence of deceased this afternoon, when formal evidence of identification was given. The inquest was reopened at the Courthouse later in the afternoon, but was immediately adjourned till 9 a.m. on Friday morning to allow of a postmortem examination.