ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
. M?p«?«-«rrss Association! . CtfRI^TCHUPvCH, last night. ;A verdict of death from heart disease -was returned at the inquest' into the death of Moses Belcher (79), who died suddenly yesteMiiy. ' ' ' ' ' -At the inquest on the body of Annie Chapman, aged 4- years, who was killed yesterday* by timfber falling On her, a verdict of accidental death was returned. • ■.'.•' . '
•i AUCKLAND, last night. An induegt' fya*}- held at Manuka u Heads this afternoon concerning the death of .James lfarrelly, of Ma-nukau Heads, who was; killed on Thursday afternoon .a>bdfsh tram engine., ' l!he evidence showed that deceased Wpis engaged m repairing the I'tram track, • and was working on a small bridge. He was standing/ on a 'trestle, wWftoi'was about three , feet below the rails, when the engine came along. In-, Jst'eadi of descending as he should have done, deceased got up. on the track and attempted to run clear *of v the engine, but? /slipped and was run over. His ne6kA;iwic[ left jthigh were broken, death being instantanemis. ...The jury found that deoeaeed came byV his death through being run over by;*l-a tram' engine^ no blame being attacfetfrle to anyone.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13101, 14 June 1913, Page 7
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