SEAMAN’S DEATH AFTER FALL
POLICE INQUIRE INTO CIRCU3I- , STANCES. ■ Press Association. DUNEDIN, January 14., Edward Lookyer, aged ' forty, 8 seaman on a Union Company steamer, fell over an embankment at Carey Bay on Saturday, . and was taken to the Port Chalmers Hospital, where he died yesterday. An inquest was opened and adjourned, owing to a suggestion that Loclcyer’s death might have resulted from injuries received in an altorcacation with John Crammond, junr., who, it was alleged, pushed him immediately prior to Ills receiving the injury that may have caused death. Tho police are inquiring fully into the cir-. cumstances. It was stated that deceased was “cranky” when slightly under the influence of liquor.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 9869, 15 January 1918, Page 5
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