CHILD TERRIBLY INJURED
Caught in Machine Shaft Press Association.—-Copyright. Hamilton, Sept. 10. Terrible injuries to the head ware received by a child, Graham Thomas Bargil, aged two years ten months, the son of Mr. James Bargh, farmer, Kio Kio. last evening, and resulted in the child’s death in the Waikato hospital this morning. Mr. Bargh had finished milking, but had loft the milking machine engine running. He was attending to the cows when his attention was attracted by the child’s cries from the engine room. The child had caught his clothes on the countershaft of the engine, and had been whirled round at least a dozen times before the engine could be stopped. His head was struck at each revolution on the concrete floor of the shed and his skull was fractured. Dr. C. R Gilbert!, of Otorohanga. was called, and ordered the child’s removal to the Waikato Hospital. Death occurred at 3.30 a.m. to-day.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 355, 12 September 1933, Page 5
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