ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 12584, 3 October 1908, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A Strange Affair

(Per United Press Association). ASHBURTON, October 2

This afternoon a man named Tlios. Pritchard, 69 years of age, was disco vjred in a doubled up position at the bottom of a narrow dry well 8 feet deep on his property at Aitken. He was almost nude and in a semi-conscious condition. After extrication, he wa6 conveyed to the ) oepitai, where he lies in a critical state.