MAN FALLS INTO THE v HARBOUR

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 38, 14 August 1917, Page 7

MAN FALLS INTO THE v HARBOUR

AND SUCCUMBS TO SHOCK,

. Last night a well-known waterside worker named Robert Henderson fell into the harbour and died from shock early this morning. He was attending to the lines of the hulk. Lutterworth at the outer tee <rf the Queen's .Wharf, and in order to facilitate • things apparently climbed up on the railing. It is thought that a sudden gust of wind-.caused him to overbalance and fall. W. Clements, another watersider, heard, the splash, and ran aft with a rope, which he threw to the man in the water. Deceased clutched at it and held on until J. Carwood, another coal worker, climbed down the ropes, and, with- the aid of. H. Gra'h&m, passed a rope round the now insensible man, and hauled him on to the hulk, where he was rendered first aid by Mr. J. Duder, an officer in the Union Company, who was assisted by a ship's fireman. Finally, Henderson Yegained consciousness, a-nd was able to assure his friendß that he was "all right." By this time Dr. Pollen had arrived, and after giving instructions for him to be wellwrapped up and made comfortable, left the ship. . ' However, in the early hours of this morning Henderson took a turn for the worse, and, in response to an. urgent call, the Hospital ambulance was sent down to the wharf. Henderson was taken to. the Hospital with all haste, and arrived there at 3.13 a.m. An examination was immediately made, but the Hospital authorities could only pronounce life extinct, and Henderson was probably dead when he was token into the ambulance. The body was removed to tlie morgue. Deceased was a man of about 45 years of age, and 'was generally regarded by both employers and fellow-workqrs as one of the quietest and best workers on thb Wellington, "waterfront, whors he had i beeA for jams' staes- ■ ■. .