CRUSHED BY ROLLER
WIDOW’S CLAIM ALLOWED. [per press association.] NEW PLYMOUTH, March 27. Deciding a suggestion that Richard Morris had committed suicide by thowing himself under a steam roller, the Arbitration Court to-day awarded
Morris’s widow £741, the full amount claimed, as compensation from the Hawera County Council, by whom Morris was employed. Morris was crushed by a steam roller while working on a road. The evidence was to the effect that he suffered from ill-health and was subject to dizzy turns. The driver of the roller said that he seemed to throw himself under the roller deliberately, but the other evidence was that Morris had shown no suicidal tendency.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 March 1930, Page 5
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