INJURED IN THE BUSH
(By Telegraph— rresß Auociation.) CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Alfred Lowrey, 03 years of age, was brought to the Hospital this morning after suffering for several days with a crushed leg. He was employed at Halswell, felling trees by himself, and last Monday a tree, which hung on to another, fell, pinning him to the ground. It took Lowrey threea hours to extricate himseif, but he could not walk, and lay for a day and a half in the open air, no one coming near him. His cooees were at length heard by Mr John Murphy, a farmer, who took Lowrey to his (Lowrey's) tent, where Lowrey. thinking the injury slight, attended to it himself, Mr Murphy sending him food. This morning Lowrey's leer was much worse, and a constable brought him to the hospital, where his right leg was found to be shattered.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 16 December 1912, Page 5
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