ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
RETURNED SOLDIER'S FATAL FALL.
By TelegrstpL—Preas Association,
Wellington, Jan. 0. Corporal L. R. Best, 38, a returned soldier, was found at the foot of a fire escape at the Columbia Private Hotel with his skull smashed. He only returned on December 20. Ho approached a police sergeant, saying that he had no money and nowhere to sleep. Ho was perfectly sober. The sergeant took him to the police station to have a rest, and saw no more of him- It is supposed he fell from the escape while trying to enter the hotel.
A DEATH EXPLAINED.
Dannevirke, Jan. 6.
The inquest on tile body of the man found irr the urinal at Dannevirke railway station on Saturday disclosed his identity as Samuel Alfred Rossiter, a well-known resident of Tamaki. He was left in the urinal by a relative to sleep after having had a severe fall while drunk, and died during the night from hemorrhage of the brain, a verdict being returned to this effect.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1919, Page 2
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