DEATH OF A PORTER.
..;'■■;, •'■ '———+L-^J-ll.: ■'■•■■■"■■:• REMiEKS"BY THECOEONES.' ..." "(By Telegraph—Preae AssooiationO ■ ; . ■ . . ,- ■!..;■ Neisoni March 30.-■ At the inquest on the body of a young man named William Knight, a .porter; who was found on the road at Pbkororo early , on. Tuesday .morning and placed in a' shed where he subsequently died* the medical evidence showed that death resultd from a fractured skull evidently the result of Va, fall front a horse. It appeared that the. deceased had been at>. tending the- sports at. Motueka.and had' been' drinking ■ • with other youths. The coroner returned a verdict in accordance . with the' medical evidence and directed the police' to make exhaustive inquiry into the drinking among, the youth which had evidently taken place at the sports and. in town. He was satisfied; that the men who found the porter on the road had no reason to believe that he was injured. ■ ..-. ,-. .. .;, '~-.•
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 779, 31 March 1910, Page 6
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146DEATH OF A PORTER. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 779, 31 March 1910, Page 6
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