SMASHED TO ATOMS.
SETTLER'S SHOCKING DEATH. George Davidson, aged about 60, employed by Mr H. W. Battley, of Mokau, was on Thursday evening riding home, accompanied by a fellow teamster driving a three-horse dray, when about two miles from Mokau the team bolted. Davidson galloped ahead with a view to stopping them, and after getting ahead, and in the act of alighting from his horse close to a telegraph pole, came in collision with the dray and was crushed to death between the dray and the telegraph pole. He was literally smashed to atoms, the telegraph pole being split right up. Deceased had lived in the district for many years, and was well known.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 344, 11 March 1911, Page 4
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114SMASHED TO ATOMS. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 344, 11 March 1911, Page 4
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