SHOCKING OCCURRENCE AT DUNEDIN.
A BOY CRUSHED TO DEATH. [BY TELEG BAPII. —PRESS association}. Duxedes, Tuesday. James Mollison, aged eleven, son of Benjamin Mollison, of Oamaru, when stepping off a tram going to Mornington last evening was knocked down in High-street. The front wheels passed over his body, and death must have been. instantaneous, the internal organs being , crushed, while the breast bone and spinal column were broken. The deceased was spending his holidays in Dunedin. At the'inquest touching the death of the boy James Mollison, of Oamaru, the bulk oi the evidence went to show that the boy had jumped from a car with bis face in the opposite direction to which it was going, and fell underneath the dummy of the down car, which was just passing. A verdict of accidental death was returned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9079, 4 January 1893, Page 4
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