Police Sergeant Dies After Fall
(N.Z. Press Association) TAURANGA, Feb. 4. A Tauranga police sergeant died in the Tauranga Hospital tonight after apparently falling heavily from a chair on to a concrete path outside a house, a police spokesman said tonight. He was Sergeant Gilbert Peter Arcus, aged 44, married, with three children. About 4 p.m. Sergeant Arcus and a constable had gone to the house in which
a woman was reported to have locked herself, the spokesman said. While two ambulances stood by, the constable tried to hold the woman’s attention at the front of the house while Sergeant Arcus and the woman’s husband went to the rear of the building to try to enter it through a window. It is believed that Sergeant Arcus may have lost his balance and fallen from a chair. Sergeant Arcus died in hospital about 5.45 p.m. without regaining consciousness.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32214, 5 February 1970, Page 1
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