DEATH AT EDEN PARK
MAN’S SUDDEN COLLAPSE
ATTACK OF HEART FAILURE
Collapsing suddenly amid the crowd on the Eden Park embankment on Saturday afternoon, Edwin King was found to be dead
before being taken to the St. John Ambulance room. jyjß. KING was a married man, aged
63, a farmer, of Mangere. He was carried from the embankment across the field by four spectators and a brigade officer. Dr. Pettit attended to the man, and it is believed that the cause of death was heart failure. ■ The body was removed to the morgue.
According to Harold Joseph Fox, who was with Mr. King, the man fell to the ground without making a sound.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 745, 19 August 1929, Page 11
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113DEATH AT EDEN PARK Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 745, 19 August 1929, Page 11
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