DROWNED IN DRAIN
death of farm hand.
FATALITY NEAR CAMBRIDGE
Press Association —Copyright. CAMBRIDGE, This Day,
About six o’clock last evening a sad fatality occurred at Rotoorangi on the farm of Mr John Davidson, five miles from Cambridge, when a. farm, hand, Rudolph Adderley, a single man, aged 43 years, was found drowned in a deep drain at the back of the farm.
About five o’clock deceased went to round up the cows for milking, and a,s ho did not return in a reasonable time, Davidson instituted a search and discovered the body of deceased lying in about two feet of water. Life was extinct ,artificial respiration being unsuccessful. When the body was examined a bruise was observed on the forehead! supposed that deceased slipped when crossing thp drain and struck his head an the opposite sid'd then falling back into the water.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 63, 24 October 1928, Page 6
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