MAN’S FALL FROM BRIDGE
FATAL INJURIES RECEIVED.
GIRL WITNESSES ACCIDENT.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night.
Fatal injuries were received by a retired farmer, Allan John Ross, aged 64, as the result of a’fall from an overhead bridge at Mount'Eden early this, morning. Ross, who was single, was sitting on the bridge rail when he lost' his balance, falling heavily to a lawn near the railway line. At the inquest to-day Sylvia Bradcock, aged 11, said she was standing outside her home when she saw a man sitting on the rail of the bridge facing the road. He was rolling a cigarette when his hat blew backward. The man turned around in an attempt to catch the hat, overbalanced and fell off the rail to the section below. The inquest was adjourned.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1933, Page 6
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