M.P.’s BEREAVEMENT
SON ACCIDENTALLY STRANGLED.
(Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, August 30. This afternoon Vai Armstrong, aged 16 years, youngest son of Mr H. T. Armstrong, M.P., was accidentally strangled. ' It is stated that he was mending a bicycle hanging in the washhouse at his parents’ residence, when he slipped off the box on which he was standing. His head was caught in the rope, and he died before his plight was discovered. INQUEST AND VERDICT. CHRISTCHURCH, August 31. At the inquest into the death of Vai Vincent Armstrong, 15, the youngest son of Mr Armstrong, M.P., the coroner returned ■ a verdict that death was due to asphyxiation, caused by a rope becoming accidentally coiled ’round the boy’s neck as he was trying to reach a bicycle on. the shelf.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 August 1927, Page 4
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