A Strange Fatality.
DEATH OF A YOUNG MAN. Napier, last night. A young man named James Nicooll, belonging to East Clive, was accidentally killed near Petane last Saturday. He was working with another man, splitting posts, near Kaiwhaka cutting. The two men had pitched their tent five feet from the edge of a cliff overlooking the Kaiwhaka cutting. Niocoll being missed, search was made for him, and he was found at the foot of the cliff, insensible. It is supposed he had a fit and fell over, the drop being 35 or 40 ft. When the doctor arrived life wss extinct. At the inquest to-day a verdict of accidental death was returned.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 636, 21 July 1891, Page 2
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112A Strange Fatality. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 636, 21 July 1891, Page 2
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