RUN OVER BY DRAY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16969, 26 February 1926, Page 2

RUN OVER BY DRAY.

MARRIED MAN KILLED. BOLTING OF TWO BULLOCKS. A. fatal accident oefeured at Kapuni says the Mannia correspondent of a New Plymouth pap Ur. A married man, Bernard Vincent Sheerin, 35, was killed by being nm over by a bullock drav 1m was driving. What makes the accident the more distressing is the fact that a widow and four young children, all under tun years of ago, are left. , According to an eye-witness. Albert Edmund Revel I. who was employed by deceased, one of the bullocks which deceased was driving broke aw.iv'. In endeavoring to re-yoke the bullock. Sheer in got between the two bollocks and one became startled and played up, causing both aminals to bolt. Sheerin made a desperate effort to get clear and balanced himself on the pole of the . dray while/ the vehicle travelled for a chain and a-half, but; then lie fell under the feet of tho bullocks aiid a wheel of the dray passed over him, crushing his chest. Medical aid was immediately summoned from Kaponga, but Sheerin died within an hour, only exclaiming: I’m done.” Sheerin was tlie second son of one of the pioneers of the Waimate Plains, the late/ Mr Bernard Sheerin. He had 'three brothers and five sisters. One of the brothers is Mr Y. Sheerin, of Auroa, and tho other is Air H. A. Sheerin, of Mangiijloki. His widow is a member of the Spiers family,- and- is well known in the district.