CASUALTIES
ACCIDENTAL DEATH.
Christchurch. Aug. 10.
At the inquest on the bod.v of Peter Ealm, a. married wharfinger, employed by the Union Company at Lyttelton, who died in the hospital as the result of injuries _ received while alighting from a moving tramcar, a verdict was returned of accidental death. A TERRIBLE MUTILATION. Dunedin, Aug. 10. Robert Newburn, aged 16, employed in the Kaitangata coal mine, had both his feet torn off while engaged in oiling machinery at the tip shed. Apparently his clothing caught in the revolving shaft, and his feet struck the overhead beam. He was removed to the Dunedin Hospital.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 432, 11 August 1915, Page 6
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