FATALITIES.
JOCKEY JACK’S” FATAL FALL
(Per Press Association.) . Christchurch, last night. On Thursday night John Friend, familiarly known as "Jockey Jack,” fell from a baloony at the back of the stage of the ' Canterbury Hall, a distauoe of thirty feet while setting soenery for the Stephenson Opera Oompaoy. He fractured his skull, and before a dootcr arrived expired. At tbe inquest into tbe sudden death of John Williams the medical evidenoo showed that death was due to synoope through over exertion. A verdict was returned accordingly.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1724, 14 April 1906, Page 2
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86FATALITIES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1724, 14 April 1906, Page 2
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