CAUGHT IN BELTING.
MAN GRAVELY INJURED.
SHEARING SHED ACCIDENT,,
[BY TELEGRAPH. —rRESS ASSOCIATION. ] GISBORNE, Thursday.
A former English public school boy, Robin Brucf, aged 23, was terribly injured at Mokowiwi station, on the east Coast, this morning, through being caught in tho belt of an engine in a shearing shed.
When tho belt came oil, Bruce attempted to replaco it, but his leg became entangled. He was thrown right across tho shed. One of his legs was torn off at the hip, and it is, believed that tho other is brokers.
Bruce, who recently arrived from England, is in a critical condition, but ho never lost consciousness.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20075, 12 October 1928, Page 12
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