PECULIAR ACCIDENT
RECOIL OF AXE AUCKLAND, Monday Mr William Tangney, aged 40, married, a sawyer, met with a peculiar accident at Drury yesterday. He was felling a willow tree by the side of a creek, and, feeling himself falling from a bough, he threw away his axe. It, however, rebounded from a neighbouring tree and struck him on the right heel, severing arteries and tendons. Mr Tangney fell into the creek, and was rescued by two persons. They carried him up a bank on a door, which served as an improvised stretcher, and he was brought to the Auckland Hospital. He suffered,.. ucftV loss of blood, but his condition ia*t night was not serious.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20954, 6 November 1939, Page 2
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