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A PRISONER'S DEATH.

CONSTABLE EXONERATED. By Telegraph—Press Association. NAPIER, July 17. An inquest was held on Saturday touching the death of Alexander Drysdale Matheson, a ship's carpen ter, aged 57. For the past two months he had worked here off- and on as a'wharf labourer. He was arrested for drunkenness and suffered a fall while being removed from the watchhouse to. the lock-up, his spine being injured. He stated in the hospital that the constable had pressed his head forward. Constable Richard Ryan, who had charge of him, stated that Matheson had resisted, and that he slipped on a step, they both fell together. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and held Constable Ryan blameless, adding a rider that the passage leading' to where the accident occurred should be widened qr-pnother doorway provi3ed.

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10043, 18 July 1910, Page 5

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A PRISONER'S DEATH. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10043, 18 July 1910, Page 5

A PRISONER'S DEATH. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10043, 18 July 1910, Page 5

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