ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
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Chrisxohtteoh, April 13.
"Walter Robson, aged about 13 years, fell off a Lyttelton train this evening, and was ran over by several carriages and killed. The body was much mutilated. Timaru, April 13. While riding in the jumping competition at the Fairlie show to-day, Robert Andrews broke one of his legs rather badly. Dunedin, April 13. James Dcv, a young man who fractured one of his legs at Maori Hill last week through slipping on a doorstep, died to day. Auckland, April 13. The lad Ernes* Walker, who met with an accident in a workshop on April Ist, died to-day. He was swinging from a rope attached to a block when the block came out of its hook and struck him on the head, fracturing the skull. April 14. At the inquest on the boy Walker, the jury found a verdict of killed aecidently by a falling block and tackle while swinging. Cabterton, April 14.
At the inquest yesterday on the two year-old son of John Sage, settler of Clareviile, who was drowned at Mangaterer© on Sunday a verdict of accidently drowned was returned.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 87, 15 April 1903, Page 3
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191ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 87, 15 April 1903, Page 3
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