MYSTERY DEATH
MAN FOUND UNCONSCIOUS Evidence at an adjourned inquest in Christchurch gave no solution of the mystery which surrounds the death of Francis Edward' Paterson Wilson. Mr. Wilson, a cycle mechanic, aged 89, was picked up unconscious on the Main South Road, at Rolleston, on the evening of May 4. He died in the Christchurch Public Hospital on May 12. Mr. Wilson, who had been working in a relief camp near Burnham, was suffering from severe head injuries. It is supposed that ho was hit by a motorvehicle that did not stop. The coroner, Mr. E. C. Levvey, returned a verdict that death resulted from concussion of the brain, accelerated by a fracture of the base of the *kull. there was no evidence as to how deceased came to suffer the injuries, although they appeared to have been inflicted on May 4, on the Main South Road at Rolleston.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22197, 26 August 1935, Page 14
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