ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
A SHUNTER KILLED,
(Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Nov. 21. John Russell, a shunter, aged 29, wad run over by some trucks while shunting in the railway yards last evening, sustaining injuries to which he succumbed in the Hospital a few hours later.
INQUEST. • CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 21. At the inquest on Vera Acourt, aged 18, an employee of the Kaiapoi factory, whose body was found in the Avon River near New Brighton yesterday, the father said she left home on Tues-’ day, since when he had not seen her alive. He did not know why she left home. She had gone away on two previous occasions. A verdict was returned of death by drowning, but that’ there was no evidence to show whether the drowning was intentional or accidental.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160813, 22 November 1920, Page 2
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131ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160813, 22 November 1920, Page 2
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