Fatal Accident.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXIV, Issue 3799, 4 June 1908, Page 2

Fatal Accident.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, This Day.

Robert Hughes, who has been employed at Cashmere, died in the hospital. He met with an accident on Saturday night. While driving a gig on Moorhouse Avenue tramline, the trap collided with a tramway pole and Hughes was thrown out. He was taken to the Hospital and attended to, and afterwards removed to the Police station, a charge of drunkenness being preferred against him. Next morning he was taken back to the hospital, when he died of cerebral hemorrhage. A verdict of accidental death was returned.