Accidents and Fatalities.
(By Teleoraph). (Per Press Association.) Daxevirke, This day. On Saturday evening Vigo Dyke, aged 18, a new arrival from Denmark, hung himself in a cowshed atTahorite, near Danevirke. The body was warm when found, but efforts to induce respiration failed. His toes were touching the ground, and if he had straightened his knees lie could ha\e taken the strain off the rope. Before he came here he twice attempted suicide, by poison and hanging.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 430, 20 September 1897, Page 3
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77Accidents and Fatalities. Hastings Standard, Issue 430, 20 September 1897, Page 3
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