CRUSHED TO DEATH
A WATERSIDER KILLED. SHOCKING FATALITY AT LYTTELTON. PUB PRESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH, January 28. A watereide worker named Leonard Coffey, a single man, and a residentof Lyttelton, was killed while working on the- steamer Kahika at Lyttelton this afternoon.' He was working on the forward winch, on which he was hauling trucks along the wharf by means of a rope passed through a pulley on the wharf, when, by some means, his coat was caught in the drum of the winch, and Coffey was carried round and crushed between the two drums. His death ensued within a few minutes.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10811, 29 January 1921, Page 8
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101CRUSHED TO DEATH New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10811, 29 January 1921, Page 8
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