SAD FATALITY.
SCHOOL TEACHER A_.D TWO LADS MEET SUDDEN DEATHS.
[By Telegraph — Press Association.} CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.
A fatal accident occurred at Ambttjley, on Saturday, when WilliaiMfcerry, aged, 35, schoolmaster, tookTlparty of boys for a Nature study to a picnic resort known as the Natural Bridge, ten miles from Amberley. On the return journey the horse in the trap, driven by Mr Berry, became restive, plunging back. After crossing the bridge it backed into the side of the bridge, and breaking the protection rail, fell into a fifty feet chasm below.
Mr Berry's skull was fractured and he died in a few minutes. His son "William, aged four, and another boy named George Deal, were killed instantaneously.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 8941, 16 December 1907, Page 5
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117SAD FATALITY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 8941, 16 December 1907, Page 5
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