FATAL ACCIDENTS TO CHILDREN.
DISTRESSING OCCURRENCES. [BY TELEGRAPH.—I'HKSS ASSOCIATION, J Dunedin, Sunday. The seven-year-old son of Mr. Scobie Mackenzie, M. H.R., met with a fatal accident on Saturday. He was playing about in an outhouse, which was only high enough to allow him to stand up. He had evidently put his head, but nob his arm, through a noose in a rope, and was swinging himself when the noose slipped, catching him under the chin. Tho jerk dislocated his neck. The ropo was only 2 feet from tho ground, and when tho body was found the knees were jusb touching the ground. A boy named Fraser, son of a wood and coal dealer, of Caversham, was killed by the overtiming of a cart. Two other lads who were in the cart at the time escaped.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8885, 23 May 1892, Page 5
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