FATAL SEQUEL TO A WRESTLING MATCH.
-o— [bt telegbapii.— rni.ss association.] NAPIER, This Day. At the inquest on tho body of the man John Hovvell, who died as tho result of injuries sustained in a wrestling contest at the Caledonian sports, tho evidence of tho two judges of the contest, of a professional wrestler, and one "of the doctors who attended deceased, and who saw the occurrence was to the effect that there had not been the slightest trace of rough handling or unfairness in the wrestling, and that tho injury seemed to havo been caused in a purely accidental manner, the deceased having twisted his neck in trying to recover himself. The medical evidence was that death was caused by laceration of the spiral cord. Tho inquest has adjourned to allow information to be obtained a3 to the practice or otherwise of using mats in field wrest-
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 50, 28 February 1908, Page 7
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148FATAL SEQUEL TO A WRESTLING MATCH. Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 50, 28 February 1908, Page 7
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