CONSTABLE'S DEATH
FALL FROM BICYCLE "AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE" [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] PALMERSTON NORTH, Saturday Medical evidence at the inquest into the death of Constable Ernest George Sutherland, who was killed in a fall from a bicycle on Wednesday, showed that the constable suffered a dislocated neck. Another witness said a bag which the constable was carrying, seemed to become caught between his knee and the handle-bars. The constable was thrown over the handle-bars and landed on his head. The coroner, in returning a verdict that death was due to a fall from a bicycle, described it as a very extraordinarv case.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22469, 13 July 1936, Page 11
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