UNUSUAL ACCIDENT
; SPURS CATCH IN WHEEL t ; > MAORI YOUTH’S DEATH !j • ' I Following ,an accident of an unusual ; type, a Maori youth, Wallace, McClutehie, 19, of Ruatoria, died early | this morning in the Cook Hospital, I where he was admitted yesterday. , I The deceased lived with his parents a’. Ruatoria, where he was employed as a farm hand. On Thursday last, ha L was riding pillion with his cousin, j David McClutchie, on a motor-cycle. (The deceased was wearing spurs, and > these caught in the back the i machine. ‘ T Later that day it was found that the deceased was suffering from in--1 juries to the right ankle, and he was ! taken to To Puia Hospital. He remained there until Saturday, when he was brought into town, and was admitted to the Cook Hospital at about , 1 a.m. yesterday. At the hospital it ‘was found that the youth was suffering from blood poisoning, and he expired at 12.30 a.m. to-day. An inquest will be held before the district coroner, Mr W. I* Walton, at 2,15 p.m. on Wednesday,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18332, 26 February 1934, Page 6
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178UNUSUAL ACCIDENT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18332, 26 February 1934, Page 6
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