CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16933, 7 September 1920, Page 6

CASUALTIES.

♦ While riding a bicycle along Colombo street, at about 12.10 p.m. yesterday, (jeorgo Benjamin Perkins, a married carpenter and builder, aged fifty years, residing at 146 King street, Sydenham, was seen to pitch forward and "fall from the machine. He was picked up in an unconscious state with blood issuing from his mouth, and removed to the Christcliurch Hospital, but died on the wav. Mr S. E. McCarthy, Coroner, held an inquest last night, and after hearing the evidence, returned a verdict in accordance with the testimony of Hr. Widdowson, that death was due to heart failure, following valvular disease of the heart. The Rev. G. W. H. Harding, who was in a motor collision at Prebblfeton on Snndnv night, and is now a patient at the Ckristehurch Hospital, was re-; ported last night to be slowly improving, and he is now fully conscious. (PIiESS ASSOCIATION* TELEGRAM.) j PALMERSTON N., September 6. Robert D. "Worsfold, a middle-aged man, a gardener, was crashed into by a motor-car at Terrace End this evening. and terribly injured. He died inj the hospital later. |