Biography

Deceased spent 22 years in Victoria before moving to Western Australia. He was employed as a surface hand on the Northern Mine, Lawlers, shovelling slimes into a truck when the bank gave way without warning and crushed him against the opposite bank. Antonio Joseph James Triade, medical practitioner, conducted a post mortem at the morgue. The only injury he could find was a partial dislocation of the neck. The cause of death was asphyxia. He is buried in Plot 15, Section B, Church of England section of Lawlers Cemetery.