AGED MAN'S DEATH
NECK WEDGED IN TREE [from our own correspondent] SYDNEY, Feb. 17 Tho recent finding of the body of an aged man, Michael O'Keefe, on a vacant allotment in Liverpool, revealed that it was obviously a very slight accident which caused a lingering death. Mr. O'Keefe was apparently crossing from one street to another by way of a vacant allotment on which a house had been demolished, and on which a few fruit trees still stood. He probably tripped on a stump and, in falling, his neck became firmly wedged in the forked trunk of a plum tree and resulted in his death from suffocation. Footmarks whore his feet >vere still on tho ground revealed that he had made desperate efforts to free himself. When found the unfortunate man had been dead for a considerable time.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22353, 26 February 1936, Page 16
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138AGED MAN'S DEATH New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22353, 26 February 1936, Page 16
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