STRANGE FATALITY.
MAN SAID TO HAVE LOST USE OF HIS LEGS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, last night. At the inquest on the body of John Perry, who foil down the stairs of tho Commercial Hotel, the evidence showed deceased to be an abstemious man. After sitting down for some timo talking business, he appeared to have lost the use of his legs when he tried to get up, and he fell. As he expressed a desire to go upstairs, tho licensee instructed the waiter to go with him. He was for some time in the parlor, and the next they heard of him was his falling down stairs. The juryreturned a verdict of accidental death, no blame being attributable to anyone.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 260, 12 November 1901, Page 2
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