CIVIL ENGINEER’S DEATH
fall into waiau river. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, November 6. At an inquest concerning the death of Benjamin Bagley Coustou. a civil engineer, of Dunedin, who fell from a motor car into the Waiau River on October 6, the Coroner said that a post-mortem examination had revealed that death was not due to drowning, but to laceration of the brain, which would cause instant death.. Deceased was a wall-known civil engineer, and his death would be felt by all. classes of the community. The verdict was that death was due to injuries received as a result of a fall from a car.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 37, 7 November 1925, Page 7
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