ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
(Per Press Association.)
MASTERTON, this day, : An elderly man named William Bryant, was found drowned m the Taueru river at Bideford yesterday. He had evidently slipped^pd fallen Into the water, and being stuiined was unable to extricate hinfcdHT At the inquest a verdict was returned of death from misadvehtiuv. AUCKLAND, this day... A deaf and dumb girl, aged five years, named Emjice Costley. was knocked down by a, train and severely injured on the railway crossing at Newmarket yesterday afternoon. She' resides with her grandfather near the crossing,- .and' had started to go on a visit to her aunt. She was crossing the line. Avheii the Itaipara, [train came -along. She' Was knocked i down, by the< engine and rendered iiricojiscious. -She A\a» taken to tho hospital, >vhere it was found that she was suffering from severe concussion; of the brain. The brakes were applied when the. child was first seen, but the distance was too ; short to enable the. train to.pull up '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12587, 18 October 1911, Page 5
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166ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12587, 18 October 1911, Page 5
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