OLD MAN'S FORTITUDE.
(Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHUROH, December 15. Alfred Lowry, 63 years of age, was brought to the' hospital this morningafter several days' suffering 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 Lowry three hours to extricate himself, but he could not walk, and he lay for a day and a half in the open air. His cooees were at length heard by John Murphy, a farmer, who took Lowry to his (Lowry's) tent, where Lowry, thinking the injury was slight, attended to himself, Murphy sending food. This morning Lowry's leg was much worse, and a constable brought him to the hospital, where his right leg was found to be shattered.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 16 December 1912, Page 5
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135OLD MAN'S FORTITUDE. Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 16 December 1912, Page 5
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