FATAL FALL FROM A TRAP.
[by Tix£uiurn.-~i' , ASSOCIATION, j Chkisix ii, Wednesday. Rocket Hughes employed at Cashmere, died in the hospital this morning. He met with an accident on Saturday uighiWhile driving «•• gig on the Mborhottbc Avenue tramline the vehicle collided with a tramway pole, and Hughes was thrown out. He was taken tc the hospital and attended to, and afterwards removed to the police station, a charge of drunkenness being preferred against him. Next morning he was taken back to the hospital, where he died of cerebral hemorrhage. At the >ji<]tie.st tins ■.after* noon r verdict was returned thai the deceased died from injuries received by being thrown from uis gig while in a state of intoxication.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13767, 4 June 1908, Page 4
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