KILLED BY FALLING ON SCISSORS.
Annie Selmes, aged 18, a domestic servant, in the employ of Mrs. (Jakes, senior, of May's Hill, Parramatta, N.S.W., -was killed by falling on a. pair of scissors. At about 10 p.m. the girl was returning from a visit to Iter sister, carrying soma needlework, and in one hand the scissors, As she left the gate she ran, and just opposite to the residence of Mr. James Devlin she tripped in a hole caused by the bursting of a, waterpipe, and fell. Mr. Devlin and his sister, seeing the fall from their verandah, carried her into,the house. Dr. Kearney was .sent for,, and found the girl in a dying condition. lie applied restoratives, but within an hour she was dead. There were two small wounds at the base of the heart. Evidently she had fallen forward heavily upon her chest, and putting out, to save herself, the "'hand"'that held the scissors, slie had fallen upon them, so that they pierced the chest wall.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13729, 21 April 1908, Page 6
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