GISBORNE BUSHFELLING FATALITY.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN" CORRESPONDENT.]
non.vi:, Thursday. From the evidence at the inquest to-day on Richard Joseph McGrath, who was killed whilst bushfelling, it appeared that deceased, his brother, and M. Rice, were working about a chain apart, deceased being in the middle. The others heard Richard McGrath working vigorously, and presently there was the crash of a large tree falling. Of this they took no notice, but about, five minutes afterwards, when he failed to hear his brother chopping, Vincent McGrath went over and found him lying under the limb of a tree about Gin in diameter, and 20ft long. This limb hud evidently been brought down by the falling tree. Richard McGrath was unconscious, with a nasty wound in the head. Rice went away for assistance, and about half-an-hotir later the injured man expired. Deceased's body was conveyed by his comrades and others, on til.-- station, a party of 29 in all, to Mr. Barron 6, over very rough country, the journey being a most arduous one, and was brought in to Whatatutu at twenty minutes past two in the morning. The verdict was one ot accidental death, no blame being attachable to anybody. The body will be interred at Auckland.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13454, 5 April 1907, Page 6
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