STEWARD'S DEATH
FALL FROM CRANE
"There is no evidence to show how the man fell from the crane. Possibly he went up the crane to obtain some sort of a look out," said the Coroner, Mr. I. Salek, J.P., at the conclusion of an inquest this morning into the death of John Hart, a steward, aged 39, who was killed at Glasgow Wharf on Saturday night. William E. Gleave, quartermaster on the Tainui, said that at 6.40 p.m. on Saturday he was on duty at the ship's gangway. He heard a crash, and when he went down to the wharf he found the deceased lying in a pool of blood, near one of the Harbour Board's cranes. Another witness, Edward Silver, ship's writer on the Tainui, also heard the deceased strike the wharf, but did not see him fall. Constable Fletcher said that the platform on the crane, which was approximately 16J feet above the wharf, was surrounded by three rails, and it was difficult to understand how Hunt had fallen through. The Coroner returned a finding that tho deceased had died at AVellington Hospital on 6th April as the result of injuries received when he fell from a crane on Glasgow Wharf.,
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 81, 7 April 1931, Page 10
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203STEWARD'S DEATH Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 81, 7 April 1931, Page 10
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