HIT BY A HAMMER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11878, 14 January 1914, Page 5

HIT BY A HAMMER.

SUSPICIOUS ' ' ACCIDENT.''

By Telegraph. — Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Tuesday.

Whilst engaged chipping tho inßide of the hold on the steamer Kamona at Port Chalmers to-day, a man named J. Wren met with injuries under circumstances that would appear to be highly significant. Wren is an arbitrationist, who is said to have been put on the "black list" of ex-strikers, and he was working with four or five of the latter, when (according to his own statement) a chipping hammer ,weighing about 71b, whizzed past him and landed at his feet. A few minutes later a second hammer came from the same quarter, and with better aim, striking him On the head, and inflicting a nasty scalp wound. Wren was taken to Dr Hughes, who stitched the wound. An inquiry was immediately made amongst those who were working in the hold with the injured man, but all denied any knowledge of the affair. They were, however, at once dismissed. The police are investigating the matter.