SHOCKING ACCIDENT.
LAIVG THE PRIZE-FIQHTEa MORTALLY INJURED. :Ut Tklkoraph. united I'kkas association. i WANfIANUJ, lltll April. At Fordoll to-night Harry Laing, the wellknown prize-fighter, attempted to alight from a train whijst it was iv motion. He Toll under the train, and bad both legs out off. The train stopped at the bottom of Fo. dull Hill, and wcut baok and brought lining into IVongauui. Ho was at onoo taken to tbo Hospital. This Day. The ilootoiM hold out no hopes of Harry ljiinsr's rocovory. Both legs have been amputated below the knoc. The sufferer is conscious, bnt in a sinking condition. Later. laiug diod chort'.y aftor 12.30, being nncoii cious in his lust raomcntß.
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Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 86, 12 April 1894, Page 2
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114SHOCKING ACCIDENT. Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 86, 12 April 1894, Page 2
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