FALL FROM BRIDGE
MASTERTON, July 4. A Masterton resident named Robert Baikie, aged about 40, single, a porfer at the Masterton Hospital, was found at 4 0 'clock thi.s morning by a police constable. lying uneonscious in a pool of blood in a shop entrance in Queen Street. The police at first thought hb w had been hit bv a motor car but on investigating traced blood stains for about 500 yards to the Waipoua River ) bed where they discovered Baikie 's bood stained hat and watch. A sea#ch indieated that Baikie had fallen from the bridge, a distance of about 20 feet, to the riverbed. Baikie was taken to hospital, his injuries consisting of a fraetured skull and injuries to the face and body. He reeovered consciousness this afternoon but eannot account t'or his injuries. Constable Bell, who fotind Baikie, states that he saw him at 1 o'clock this mornihg walking tOwards the hospital.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 July 1948, Page 5
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155FALL FROM BRIDGE Chronicle (Levin), 5 July 1948, Page 5
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