FATAL FALL FROM BICYCLE.
A CARPENTER’S DEATH. George Benjamin Perkins, aged fifty years, residing at 140, King Street, Bydonhara, and employed m the city as a carpenter ‘and builder, met with a , total accident to-day. While cycling down Colombo Street on his way home to lunch ho was observed to pitch forward as though he had experienced a heart failure, and he fell heavily to tho ground. He was picked up unconscious, and blood was then issuing from his mouth. Un the way to tho Christchurch Hospital in the Cashmere Military Ambulance waggon he died. An inquest will be held in the local Magistrate’s Courthouse at 7.30 o’clock
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 20044, 6 September 1920, Page 8
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