SAD FATHER.
ONLY SON KILLED
(BY TELEGRAPH —FR/RSS ASSOnTVTTON ) ASHBURTON, July 17." Joseph Rountree is the saddest father m New Zealand to-day. After sawing a tall pine he inserted a wedge and walked towards his house, intending to return to complete the job. The tree cracked prematurely, pinning his son Harry, isß, under trie branches, but apparently not fatally. Seizing a sharp axe, the father hacked the branches in desperate haste, and accidentally cut his son's leg, which . was concealed beneath the foliage. The son shouted: "You've cut me!' 3 It was found necessary to saw the tree across the son, but meantime he bled to death. He was the only boy of a family of seven.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 18 July 1923, Page 5
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117SAD FATHER. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 18 July 1923, Page 5
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