DOMINION NEWS.
FOUND HANGED. (by TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 16. Advice has been received by the police that George Talcott A'hier, an inmate of the Roto Roa inebriates’ home, has been found hanged. CRUSHED BY LIFT. AUCKLAND, Dec. 16. A fatal lift accident occurred'in the Ferry Buildings to-day. George Frederick Cox was taking a case of goods up in the lift, when a case overbalanced knocking him against the side of the lift. Cox received injuries to his head and thigh, and died several hours later. Deceased was a married man and lived in the city. THE CROSSING MENACE. YOUTH KILLED. WHANGAREI, Dee. 16. .This afternoon a special train conveying St. Leon’s circus northwards’ crashed into a. dray in charge of Jack Broomfield, aged nineteen, at a leVel crossing near Kukerenui. Broomfield was killed instantly, the body being fearfully mutilated.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 December 1924, Page 5
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