ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
« A FATAL FALL. [Per United Press Association.] NEW PLYMOUTH, March 22. While engaged in building operations in i business premises yesterday afternoon ; Charles Bur-ness Andrews fell from the | roof through a plaster ceiling to tho concrete ground floor, sustaining a fractured ! skull. Ho was removed to tho hospital, where he died early this morning. lie was forty-two years of age, and leaves a widow and threo children in Auckland. Goorgc Taylor, aged twenty-two years, Was admitted to the hospital last night I suffering from a fracture of the right leg, i sustained through falling on the footpath in Lower High street. He is single, and resides at tho City Buffet. A married woman, Mrs Jean Reid, aged twenty-nine years, was found dead at her residence, Grey Lynn (Auckland) yesterday with a rubber tube from a gas iron connection in her mouth; She had no children. Deceased had l been in ill-health. Thomas Leigh, a messroom steward on tho steamer Arahoira, was found dead at tho bottom of a on tho vessel at Auckland. Evidence was given at tho inquest that deceased and two other’s slept in a smoking room on Monday night, the body being found at 6 ’ a.m., clothed in pyjamas. Owing to the severe nature of the injuries to deceased’s head tho coroner ordered a post-mortem examination.
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Evening Star, Issue 17925, 22 March 1922, Page 5
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222ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS Evening Star, Issue 17925, 22 March 1922, Page 5
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