FATAL FALL
AFTER A NIGHT OUT. (Per Press Assn). CARTERTON, July 30. The inquest on Frank H. Rushfon was resumed at Greytown yesterday. Tho evidence showed that a party of ten men took ten gallons of beer and a bottle of whisky, besides bottled beer, to a place outside Grey town and returned at 3.30 ou Sunday morning. Deceased mounted a horse and left his companions. It was surmised that he became sick or fell asleep ou the horse, and fell on the road striking his head and so fracturing his skull at the base. Considering thaf deceased was drunk, his employer, J. Meikle, with assistance, put him to bed and left him some hours. He could not rouse him for breakfast and s< nt for the doctor, who pronounced the man unconscious and ordered his removal to the hospital, where he died a few hours later. The verdict was that the man met his death through accidentally falling from his horse and fracturing the base of his skull.
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Grey River Argus, 31 July 1924, Page 7
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169FATAL FALL Grey River Argus, 31 July 1924, Page 7
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