DEATH IN GROCER’S SHOP
COLLAPSE AFTER REQUEST FOR PROTECTION
[Pe* United Fee#* Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, _ February 1. Investigations are being made concerning the death of Robert Main, aged about 54 years, residing at 556 Hereford street. Heart failure is suspected, but a post-mortem examination has been ordered by the coroner. The case has some unusual features. Main walked into a fruit shop in Cashel street at 9 o’clock last night and asked for protection from a man he alleged was following him. Main said that he had been pushed into the gutter by a second man. He next went into a grocer’s shop with the intention of telephoning the constable at Linwood, who, he said, knew him. Main spoke to friends on the telephone first, and then collapsed beside the counter and died within a few minutes.
Statements by shopkeepers in the locality allege that Main and another porton had previously been involved in an argument, though there is no evidence that blows had been struck.
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Evening Star, Issue 22252, 1 February 1936, Page 14
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