FATAL INJURIES
WORKMAN STRAINS "HIMSELF
'By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
( '. V ■■■ : DTJNEDIN, 4th March. VVliiJc working on tho wharf v this morning, Thomas Long, a married man, aged 53, received injuries which necessitated his immediate removal to his home. A doctor was summoned to attend him at his home at 10.30 a m and after diagnosing his trouble the medical man left, saying ho would call again on Thursday. Early ih the afternoon Long took a turn for the worse, and at about; 1 p.m. the doctor was again summoned, but before he arrived tinman was dead. It appears that Long had been engaged on some particularly heavy work on.tho waterIront, in the execution of which he strained himself to such an extent that the pain ..in his breast demanded that he should cease work. An inquest was opened at the residence of deceased this afternoon, when tormal evidence of identification was ?h Yen *T h° T B':™8 reopened at the Courthouse later in the afternoon, but was immediately adjourned till 9 a.m on .Friday to allow of a postmortem examination
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 51, 5 March 1929, Page 5
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179FATAL INJURIES Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 51, 5 March 1929, Page 5
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