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MAN S STATEMENT BEFORE DEATH. [Per Press Associatwn] AUCKLAND, July 23. In a statement made to the police before his death in the Auckland Hospital William Braddick, aged 75, exonerated from blame a 12-year-old boy cyclist with whom he collided in Karangahape Road on the afternoon of June 25. The statement, which was produced at the inquest into his death, was: “I do not blame Douglas as I did not see him on the road." The coroner, Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., said it seemed to have been quite an accidental occurrence caused by the boy’s bicycle skidding on a tram rail as he attempted to avoid deceased. The verdict was that the cause of death was due to lung complication following an injury to the spine caused by being accidentally knocked down by a bicycle.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 174, 24 July 1936, Page 7
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