A Narrow Escape.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1892, 4 October 1886, Page 3

A Narrow Escape.

Boms scoundrel for whom Fate has in (tore • dry death, bat whose time has not yet some, recently perpetrated a most vicious act that might have raealted in the wreaking 0 f B. Holt’s new mill end the death and nuiznlug of many parsons. A vary long log was lying at the railway nation, and was intended U be cot at the new mill, bat by the merest eoektenl happened to be sent to tbe Spit milt Upon being cat into (bj the big circular ■nokuig down saw) the workmen near the »w bench wan terrified by a tremendous ansb, sad by the saw suddenly stopping while the machinery kept in motion. The log was hurriedly shifted back, and afterwards aarafnily examined, when it was found «at the aforesaid scoundrel had driven several six inch nails into tbe log, with skilfai devilry pouching the nsils till their t»eed* w«o an inch beiaw the enter bark of the log. »tea wonder that nobody was killed. In Amenee, several yean ago, a spike in a log ■atby a page areolar saw ceased the letter to break into three pieces, each of which was ■iwd by lb* momentum of the mv’i retoldboas to a greet distanee, and two men (one ■“*} °®* “w» distance sway) were killed. In another ease, in England, where MupwUcfn sew came in contact with e nue in a balk ol mahogany, the machinery M°*f down and the mill was partially wvsehsd, several men seriously injured and MM killed. Whoever drove the nsils into Mr Holt's log bad used a hammer, nails and punch before, ss tbe fiendish work was ••artistically " done. The police think that M*7 have e cine, and every man iu the aoounanity (lor the perpetrator is not s man) will fervently hope that the miecreent may be eangfat. Had the tog gone to tbe up aud down eaw at the new mill tbe result would gobefalyhave been dreadful.-Uawkes Bay