BUSHMAN KILLED
CRUSHED BY FALLING TREE Thomas Henry Stokes, 2(5, farm laborer, single, was killed at Morikau farm, Jerusalem, Wanganui river, last week. Ho was working with Trevor Richard Francis Spencer, sowing grass seed on a bush burn, and the two were camped about five miles from the homestead. Spencer was working further up the gully, when lie heard a crash. He ran down the gully and found Stokes pinned under the branches of a rata tree. Spencer was unable to move the branches so he ran to the camp for an axe and a first-aid outfit. Hi? left a note at the camp. Mr. Davidson, the manager of the farm, arrived at the camp with supplies, and finding the note, rushed to the scene of tho accident. Ho and Spencer chopped the branches to free Stokes, but he was dead before they could release the body. - The tree was apparently burning .inside, but .no smoke had been seen by tho men.
At an inquest which was held at Morikau by Mr. Sanford, the district coroner, a verdict was returned of death from injuries received by being accidentally crushed by a falling tree.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17503, 27 February 1931, Page 6
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