ACCIDENTS.
PRESS ASSOCIATION. I . NAPIER, February 24. i A fatal trap accident occurred tins] afternoon bv which a lad named John! Mundell, aged seven years, son of Mrj Adam Mundell, livery' stable-keeper, otj Hastings, lost his life. The boy, bisi father, two sisters and ,a man named.) Stack, bad been on a blackbcrryjnK expedition, ami were driving homo. VVhenj near the Frindey bridge the horse, jibbed, and all the occupants of tho trap alighted, Stack catching hold of the horse’s bead, but it pulled back, --ml in doing so jammed the boy against thO; fence. The hoy expired after a few; gasps. „ _ , AUCKLAND. February 24. A n accident took place at OpotilvlMr F. Butts’s son, aged five years, was playing around a well in the backyard*, whim he over-balanced, and fell into 6ft of water, striking his head on the bricks as he fell. A considerable time elapsed before he was missed.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4595, 25 February 1902, Page 5
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152ACCIDENTS. New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4595, 25 February 1902, Page 5
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