CYCLIST’S DEATH
INQUEST CONCLUDED The adjourned inquest into the death of John Samuel Donaldson, a married man. 36 years of age, living at 27 Orson street, Mornington, who died at the Dunedin Hospital on April 15 from injuries received when the cycle he was riding collided with a post m Stafford street, was concluded before Mr J. R. Bartholomew. S.M.. yesterday.—Hedley Roy Thompson gave evidence that he found the deceased lyina beside a post at the top of Stafford street. wit]i his bicycle alongside him, on the morning of April 15. The deceased was deeplv unconscious, and was taken to Hospital.—The coroner’s verdict was that death was due to a fractured skull received when the deceased fell from his cycle
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24607, 15 May 1941, Page 6
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