ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WANGANUI, Monday. A shunter, Hector E. Hepburn, was sent to the hospital this morning with a broken thigh. He was on a locomotive, and on going to dismount'his coat caught on a bracket, and he was draped several yards. TIMARU, Monday. Last evening word was received at the Timaru Police Station that a man named J. Glass was found dead in a paddock at Levels, the indications pointing to a gunshot wound as being the cause of death. The body was found near a fence, with a gun on the opposite side.
At about eight o'clock this morning, Thomas Adkins, railway employee, was found dead in bed at his resilience.
WARKWORTH, Monday
An Inquest concerning the death of Mr Robert McKinney, a Warkworth firmer, who was found d ad on his f : iv:r: on Friday, was held before Mr Waria, J.P. Death was due to n gunshot wound. The verdict was that deceased met his death through the accidental discharge of his g-"' while he was getting over a wire fence-
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16817, 8 June 1926, Page 6
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