ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
M\NSLAUGHTER CHARGE FOLLOWS FATAL ACCIDENT. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Last Night. As a result of a motor-car accident in Queen Street on Tuesday, evening, when a widow. Mrs. Bessie Sharpies, sustained fatal injuries, Sydney Murphy and Thomas Laurence MaQuid were charged in the Police Court with manslaughter. The original charge against the accused was of causing actual bodily harm. Both were remanded for a week, bail in £SOO for each being forthcoming.
13 DEATHS AT OIL WELL FIRE. (Received Thursday, 8.30 p.m.) At Kerens, Texas, thirteen men were bunifd to death bv aa explosion at a nowly-sunk oil well, which a worker attempted r o close whim the oil began to gush. Friction ignited the gas and oil, resulting in a vast pillar of flame one h inrfred feet h'gh. Attempts to extinguish llie Hani* were unsuccessful. '
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2643, 11 May 1923, Page 5
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140ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2643, 11 May 1923, Page 5
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