DEATH FROM A FALL
A TRAMWAY" FATALITY. A tram accident with ‘fqYal consequences occurred in the vicinity of Courtenay plaice at about 12.10 on Saturdayo afternoon, when a middle-aged man named John Findlay slipped from a tram proceeding froan Lyall Bay and sustained, injuries to the head, Which proved fatal. Apparently, from what can .bo gathered, the man was alighting from tlio tram at the corner of Taranaki street and Courtenay place when he met with the accident, and, in falling, he struck his head on the old tram rails in the vicinity. Tho services of Dr. Palmer were at once procured and the ambulance immediately summoned, but the man died before the ambulance arrived. An inquest will be held to-day.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10961, 25 July 1921, Page 5
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