LIVED WITH BROKEN SPINE.
DEATH AFTER 13 YEARS.
Death from a fractured spine, the result of an accident which occurred 13 years ago, was the verdict returned at an inquest at Sutherland, on Francia Reynolds, 42, a seagoing fireman, of King's Entry, Sunderland.
It appears that in 1910 he was on board the Clintonia, at Sulina; Rumania, arid one night he heard his mate call for help. A lighter was lying alongside, and Reynolds jumped off his ship into the lighter to ascertain the cause of the cry. ; • In jumping he injured himself, and this set up paralysis in both legs. The man later unproved and received compensation, Sil n i 191 V ,e *' as compelled to go into ft* His visit* to the hospitatthere. | SSS riepl/mffe 1 «' * showed - that the 1 •the accident. ;~\r 'A ! r » ctued spine since
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18553, 10 November 1923, Page 2 (Supplement)
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