WORKMAN'S DEATH.
POLICE INVESTIGATING. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The police are making further investigations to-day into the death of George John Christopher Bank, aged 51, relief worker, who received fatal injuries on Summit Road yesterday. It is stated now that an altercation occurred previously, and a charge of manslaughter may follow. One relief worker stated this morning that Bank had been, concerned in a dispute. "I was working alongside Bank," he said, "and an altercation arose between Bank and another man. Bank was twice struck on the body. He stumbled and fell about four feet over a bank on to his back. • He rose to his feet and then fell forward, striking his chin on some stone. He was unconscious when picked up."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 91, 19 April 1933, Page 9
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