ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.
An inquest was hold on the body of Joseph Thawley, who was ran over by a mail train at i’apaparainnu (Wellington). The evidence, was to the effect that the deceased, who had been in ill-health lately, appeared to deliberately throw himself in front of the approaching train. The jury brought in a verdict of “Suicide while temporarily insane.” An Auckland message states that John H. L. Dobbs, seventeen years of age, apprenticed as engineer at Fraser’s Foundry was killed through portion of a boiler falling on him.
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Evening Star, Issue 14036, 17 April 1909, Page 6
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90ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS. Evening Star, Issue 14036, 17 April 1909, Page 6
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