ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
{ (PKB PABBS ASSOCIATION.) CHRIBTCHURGH, January 12. Elizabeth Cucran," wife of the Ucenuee of the. West Oxford Hotel, was found dead in the kitchen on Saturday night. ; Ellen Fitzgibbon, a married woman residing at. North Ijobjmi, who was thrown out of a. trap, last Tuesday, and sustained injuries to her spine, succumbed to day, , , , . '. BLENHEIM, January 12. . A young man named William Batter,' hailing from Victoria and working on the Top Valley goldfield, died in the hospital as tbe result of a, peculiar acoident last* Thursday. While vaulting, and when be was about nine feet frotn the ground, thepole broke, and be fell heavily on his shoulder, the whole of bis body becoming paralysed. »••,,' ; WANGrANDI. January 12. '■' On Sunday last; while engaged in pig ! hunting hear Brunswick, Bedmond ' Gripps, aged 22, was accidentally, killed; : by his gun exploding. At the., Inquest ; to-day a verdict of accidental death: was ' returned. • : > > v " 1
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 76412, 13 January 1903, Page 2
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153ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 76412, 13 January 1903, Page 2
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