FATAL ACCIDENT.
(UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, July 27. On Sunday evening William Law, a tunnel man working on the Otago Central Railway, lost his life by falling over a precipice near where the Bare wood Creek empties itself into the Taieri River. On Sunday he was drinking at several sly-grog shanties at Deep Stream, and he was seen going towards his home at Flat Stream, four miles distant, at about 6 o’clock in the evening. . A young man named Henry Clark, while riding along, noticed the body at the foot of a cliff. The track deceased took is a most dangerous.one at certain points, especially at night time. His footsteps were traced to the spot where he stumbled and fell (headlong apparently, for his head was much disfigured), a clear space of 100 feet, and then he must have fallen a further distance of 200 feet. Part of his watch chain was hanging to his vest, and search being made the watch was found where his head had struck at the first break of the fall. Deceased was 40 years old, and unmarried.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 752, 30 July 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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