A FATAL RESULT.
It will be remembered that on Jan. 19, the day of the Springfield racea^ Mr Robert Wallace, well-known in Christchurch as the landlord of the Criterion Hotel, broke his leg and sustained other injuries while wrestling. As the result of the accident erysipelas set in, and about nine o'clock this morning Mr Wallace died at Sheffield. He was about forty-five years of age, and before he took the Criterion Hotel was in tho Police Force, in which he attained the rank of sergeant. He afterwards carried on the business of a contractor, and at the time of his death was keeping an hotel at Sheffield.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6161, 14 February 1888, Page 2
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108A FATAL RESULT. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6161, 14 February 1888, Page 2
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