Accidents and Fatalities.
A WHARF LABOURER KILLED
(Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON. May 2(1
At fatal accident occurred on tin; Glasgow' wharf about U o’clock this morning. A middle-aged man named Charles Thorpe, while assisting to load the steamer Surrey, had his neck broken through a bale of tow- being jerked on to him, pinning him against the outside wall of the shed. Death was instaneaneons. Thorpe was a well-known local identity, ami stood for election at the City Council last year. RIFLE RANGE FATALITY. BLENHEIM, Alay 20. Some young fellows were shooting at the Cauvastown rifle range on Saturday afternoon, when one fired a rifle with a cleaning rod in the barrel. The lock was blow-n out and struck a young man named Sinclair Cowper in the'stomach. He was removed to the Hospital, where ho died this morning.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 13685, 20 May 1912, Page 6
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139Accidents and Fatalities. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 13685, 20 May 1912, Page 6
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