ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
About 1 , 9.30 a.m. yesterday a prisoner named William Oliver, working" : - iri n the hard-labour gang /on the reclamation at Lyttelton, was slightly injured 1 by "about a couple of barrow loads of dabris, which fell on his left leg. He was taken back to the gaol on 'the -ambulance stretcher from the railway station. A man named William Bailey, aged about fifty, and an inmate of the Samaritan Home, djed yesterday evening from the effects of drinking some carbolic acid by mistake.; He was attended by I)r Orchard, who ad- 1 ministered the usual treatment, but he sank from exhaustion and died. ■
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CIII, Issue 12157, 22 March 1900, Page 6
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