CAUGHT BY MOVING SHAFT
INFANT ROY KILLED TRAGEDY IN MILKING SHED ri HAMILTON, Sept. 10. Terrible injuries to the' head were received by a child, Graham Thomas Eargh, aged two years ten months, the ■sou. of Mr James Burgh, farmer, Kio Kio, last evening, and resulted in the child’s death in the Waikato hospital tin's morning. Mr Bargh had finished milking but had left the milking machine engine running. He was attending to the cow.s when his attention was attracted by T the child’s cries from the engine room. The l child had caught his clothes on the countershaft of the engine, and had been whirled round at least a dozen times before the engine could he stopped. His> head was struck at each revolution on the concrete floor of the shed and his skull was fractured.
Dr. .0. B. Gilberd, of Otorolianga, was called, and ordered the child’s removal to the Waikato. Hospital. Death occurred at 3.30 a.m. to-dav.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 12 September 1933, Page 6
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