MINING TRAGEDY
MAN ACCIDENTALLY KILLS HIS MATE AND THEN TAKES HIS OWN LIFE. (UNITED PRESB ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received 16th June, noon.)* LONDON, 15th June. An inquest at Fronie revealed a shocking underground mining tragedy, it being established that a collier committed suicide because ho had accidentally killed his mate. A blaster, Berryman, fired in a lonely part of the workings I a charge which accidentally killed But- [ ton, who was working with him. Distracted with grief, Berryman took the buttery forty yards from the dead man, placed a detonator in his own mouth, and exploded it.
The tragedy was revealed by a note in Bereyman's handwriting to the colliery manager as follows:—"I have met with a. misfortune. My poor old pal! Not knowing that he had the cable connected I connected the cable too, at the end. To cause no trouble I take my own life. I can truthfully say it was an accident. All my belongings go to his wife and children. God bles3 them all and forgive me."
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 142, 16 June 1923, Page 7
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174MINING TRAGEDY Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 142, 16 June 1923, Page 7
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