SOLDIER ACCIDENTALLY KILLED
■ CORONER'S INQUIRY. . ' (From Our. Special. Correspondeut.) Masterton, March 6. An inciuesfc was held by Mr. \E. G. 'Eton, District Coroner, at Feathers ton. on Saturday, on the body of Q.M.Sorgeant W. F. Bright, iviio was killed in a motor accidont on Friday evening. Who evidence showed that tho debeascd was cycling, apparently without lights,alongthoßahautareßoad, when lie was overtaken by a Greytown motorist. Tho latter sounded his horn,, but tho cyclist swerved, and was knocked down, two wheels of the car passing over him. Ho was removed to the 'military hospital, where,- on examina-tion,-it was found that he had sustained a fractured skull and fractured jaw. He succumbed from his injuries shortly after hisi admission to the institution. The Coroner returned a verdict that death was caused from shock, the result of injuries sustained through being accidentally run over by a motorcar.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3020, 6 March 1917, Page 5
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