A SHOCKING ACCIDENT
(II TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
GISBORNE, This Day.
Leslie. Jeffers, aged 21, employed on road construction work at Wharorata, dropped a. crowbar, with which ho had been working on the top of a bank 12 feet above the soft, earth. JeffeTs slipped down the bank, and became impaled on the bar. which went right through his body, entering the thigh and coming out at the shoulder blade. It required the efforts of two strong men. to remove the bar. Jeffers was brought to the town hospital, but succumbed on Sunday afternoon.
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 39, 15 August 1921, Page 7
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92A SHOCKING ACCIDENT Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 39, 15 August 1921, Page 7
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