LIVED WITH BROKEN SPINE.
DEATH AFTER 13 YEARS. Death from a fractured spine, the result of an accident which occurred 13 years ago, was the verdict returned at an inquest at Sutherland on Francis Reynolds, 42, a seagoing fireman, of King’s Entry, Sunderland. ’ , , , It appears that in 1910 he was on board the Clintonin. at Sulim'. Rumania, and one night he heard h;s mate call for help. A lighter .was lying, alongside, and Reynolds jumped’, off Ins shin into the lighter to ascertain: the cause:of the. cry. In jumping he n'irrefi himself, and this set up paralysis in both legs The man later irnivoved Hnd received ■ compensation, but in 1914 he we.s compelled to go into hospital. His visi-G to the hospital thereafter were of frequent occurrence, and he died on September ?. , The medical evidence show ad tnnt the man bad lived with a fractured spine since the accident
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19019, 15 November 1923, Page 8
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