WEDDING FEAST TRAGEDY.
* RESULT OF DRINK. A tragedy following a wedding feast at Hackney was 'described at an inquest at London Hospital on George Roberts (aged 65), of Hoxton. The wedding was that of a couple at Hackney. The bride told the coroner that Roberts, one of the guests, started to leave for his home, and she went on to the landing of the first floor to bid him goed-bye. As' she did so Roberts seemed to totter and twist round, and he fell into the basement below. His skull was fractured. The widow sated that she had been separated for six years from her husband, but had been corresponding with him. She met him at the wedding, at which her husband had a gresfc deal to drink. The coroner returned a verdict of “Accidental death-.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 October 1924, Page 14
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136WEDDING FEAST TRAGEDY. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 October 1924, Page 14
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