AFTER LONG DAY
MAN’S FATAL FALL BASE OF SKULL FRACTURED [Per Press Association] GREYMOUTH, Dec. 27. An inquest was held to-day touching the death of Thomas Patterson, aged 50, a ganger working on tlio railway between Greymouth and the Omoto slip, who early on Saturday morning was found lying dead alongside the lino at the wharf station, Greymouth. Patterson was on shift from, 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., but through some mistake worked on until 2.45 a.m. on Saturday, when he boarded a ballast train and camo to Greymouth. At the station platform the fireman, while the train was shunting, noticed the form of a man and, calling w the attention of the driver, found the deceased. A doctor on arrival pronounced life extinct. The verdict was that deceased met his death, which was due to fracture of the base of the skull, through accidentally falling from a railway van.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19731, 28 December 1926, Page 7
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