FRACTURED SKULL.
SEQUEL TO BEER PARTY,
Carterton, July 31. The inquest on the body of Frank If. Rnsht.on was resumed at Greytown yesterday. The evidence showed that a party of ten men took ten gallons of beef and a bottle of whisky and a quantity of bottled beer to a place outride Grey!own and returned at 3.30 »n Sunday morning. Deceased then mounted a horse and left his companions. It is surmised that he became sick or fell asleep on his horst and tell. Ins head striking the road and lhc skull being fractured. Medical evidence was to the effect that there was no hope for the man, whatever had been done at. first. Considering that deceased was drunk, bis employer, Mr J. Meikle, wit if assistance, put him to bed and left h’im for some hours. He could not rouse him for breakfast and sent -for a doctor, who pronounced the man unconscious and ordered his removal to the hospital, where lie died a few hours later. A verdict was returned that death was caused by deceased accidentally falling from a horse and fracturing the base of his skull.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2766, 2 August 1924, Page 3
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190FRACTURED SKULL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2766, 2 August 1924, Page 3
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