ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES I

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13575, 6 December 1907, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES I

.-„ (Per Press Association,) * ' » .. DUNEDIN, December: 5.^ Henry Lawson Johnson, who liV^d kt St. Clair, died thisi morning, appar-* ently as the result of a slight ' tho top of his head inflicted by a.^ corkscrew on November 25th, • ©e^edsefl, who had a corkscrew in his hand, stooped under a table to pick up somer thing. Wlien he -rose he was bleeding profusely from a wound on his- head, A pad was made and the flow of blood was stopped, but every time t^e pad ; was taken' off the bleeding/? -commenced ''• afresh. He took ill early tft|s morning, and when a doctor arrived jh&^as dead. Decoase,d. was « well knov^n in racing circles a few yeters ago.