INJURIES RECEIVED IN STRUGGLE
Elderly Man’s Death Dominion Special Service. NAPIER, May 8. A struggle outside the Hawke's Bay Club between Edwin Horribin and Ernest Arthur Coe, aged 74, who died in Napier Public Hospital three days after he had been admitted with injuries received in that struggle, was described, at an inquest before Mr. Miller. S.M., in Napier today. The coroner said there was no justification on the evidence for further proceedings. He returned a verdict that Coe’s death was caused by multiple injuries, of which the most serious was a fractured rib, occurring in an elderly man already suffering from cerebellar softening and thrombosis of the posterior cerebellar artery, aud that the injuries were received in a struggle between Coe and Horribin when Horrobin was resisting Coe from further assaulting him. A steward of the club, Herbert Faulkner, described Coe as Intoxicated when he entered the club.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 191, 9 May 1940, Page 5
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149INJURIES RECEIVED IN STRUGGLE Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 191, 9 May 1940, Page 5
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