A FATAL ACCIDENT.
An accident, which unfortunately had a fatal termination, happened on Friday morning. A boy named Leonard Styles was engaged in cleaning the windows of the North Dunedin branch of the Bank of New Zealand, at the corner of Gsorge and Pitt streets, wbea he fell from the ledge of one of the windows on the top fl*t to the pavement below — a distance of about 20ft. When picked up he was fouud to be in an unconscious state. He was immediately taken to the hospital, where ifc was digcovered that' both his arms were fractured at the wrist?, that his head was badly hurt, and that_ he had sustained other injuries. He received every attention at the institution, baft sank gradually, and died without recovering consciousness at 3.40 p.m.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2244, 4 March 1897, Page 55
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132A FATAL ACCIDENT. Otago Witness, Issue 2244, 4 March 1897, Page 55
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