Fatal Wrestling Match.
(Per Press Association.) Wellington, February 22. At the inquest on Herbert Talbot, a compositor, who died from the effects of a fall sustained in an hotel on Saturday evening last, the evidence showed that decease was sober and started wrestling for fun with another man ; that the two men slipped, and, the other losing his hold, Talbot fell ou the floor, sustaining injuries to his head. The jury returned a verdict that deceased sustained his injury in an accidental manner and that no blame was attachable to anyone.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 198, 24 February 1896, Page 3
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91Fatal Wrestling Match. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 198, 24 February 1896, Page 3
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