_The Evening Post_, 14 May 1924:
NELSON NEWS
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Through a branch of a tree falling on him while engaged in felling bush yesterday at Stanley Brook, a young man named Donald Thorn sustained injuries to his head. He was attended to by Dr. H. O. Washburn, and, after examination, sent to the Public Hospital. He is suffering from severe concussion, and his condition is grave.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240514.2.20

DEATH FROM INJURIES
(BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.
NELSON, This Day.
Ronald Nelson Thorn (19), who met with an accident at Stanley Brook while bush-felling, succumbed to his injuries in the hospital last night. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240514.2.81
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