SAILOR'S FATAL FALL
(»I TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
DUNEDIN, 24th October.
While the auxiliary schooner Honto was en route from Onehunga to Dunedin, a seaman named Jacob Larsen was killed through a fall to the deck. He was furling the fore upper topsail, and it is presumed that he missed his footing. His right leg and ajm were broken, and several ribs were crushed.. Larsen died an hour later, and was buried at sea. He was a native of Russia, and was thirty-six years of age.
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Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 100, 25 October 1916, Page 2
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84SAILOR'S FATAL FALL Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 100, 25 October 1916, Page 2
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