CASUALTIES.
« DROWNED IN-THE RIVER. A FRUITERER'S END. Shortly after 8 a.m. yesterday 1 tho body of Albert Edwin Broughton, a Christchurch fruiterer, was found floating face downwards in tho Avon, below tho Dallington bridge. An inquest on the body was held by Mr H. W. Bishop, coroner, in tho afternoon.. Joseph Dann said deceased .was a fruiterer, carrying on business .in Kiimoro street. ' He was thirty-six years of ago. Witness last saw him at 7._----on Monday evening, in his shop. De-. ceased did not seem depressed at all. Thomas James Brown, assistant bailiff of tho Magistrate's Court, stated that he had been in possession of deceased a houso since Monday in respect of a distress warrant for £120 10s. Deceasod bad been worried a good deal about tho matter. He had tried to borrow money to pay tho claim off but had failed. Witness last saw deceased . at about six o'clock that morning, when deceased went out. . Albert Artbur Lilley, a labourer employed by the Drainage Board, said he discovered tho , body of deceased, face downwards, in the Avon, about half a mile north of tho Dallington bridge, at about 5.15 that morning. It was in about four or five feet of water. > Constable McLcod gave evidence as to finding tho body of deceased in tho A verdict was returned that deceased \vas found drowned in th© river Avon. ■ DEATH AT THE HOSPITAL. . An inquest was held at the Christchurch Hospital last night touching tho death ot Patrick Owens, a -ingle ■ man, aged 49, who died at the Hospital yesterday. . . , Eric Arthur Widdowson, junior house surgeon at the Christchurch Hospital, said tho decoded was admitted at about 12 o'clock on January 27th, suffering from gastro-on- . . teritis and pleurisy. Ho was in a very low state when admitted, and from that timo ho sank rapidly, dying at 11.30 a.m. yesterday. The cause of death was exhaustion, due to gastro-enteritis. . i ■ Thomas Rosson Poynton, gaoler at Lyttelton, deposed that deceased . ■ received by him on tho 26th inst.. for medical treatment, being committed • ' on a warrant issued at Little River, dated January 26th T on a -hargoof drunkenness. Tho deceased, when admitted, appeared to b© suffering -*: from some illness. Tho gaol ..surgeon saw him about half-an-hour afterwards, nnd prescribed for him. At half-past. six, tho accused .began to __. vomit, and the prison surgeon -was *'" immediately informed, but did . not visit the deceased again that night. Ico was prescribed, and this was obtainod by tho officer, who had report- _ ed tho matter. Witness did not Thimsclf again sec tho prisoner that night, nnd no special report wa*s made. to him. The following morning, witness saw the prisoner between nine • and ten o'clock, and askod him how he felt, tho man replying, "Much about tho same." Tho prison surgeon saw tho prisoner at 10.30 a.m., . and recommended his immediate removal, to tho Hospital, as the man '. was suffering from! ipleurisy. The> , ' prisoner left Lyttelton by the 11.20 train, and was removed in tho ambu- - lance to tho Hospital. - '■'-- Tho Coroner* Did you consider the man was moro ill than suffering fromtho effects of drink P—l did. In your opinion tho gaol is not a proper place for alcoholio patients?— Yes! He should have been sent to the Hospital and not to the prison. Win. Evelyn Hendry, police constable, stationed at Christchurch, gave evidence that on the 24th inst., at 10.30 p.m., ho arrested the man for drunker,ne_s on the main road a< Little River. The accused was lyino on the road about a hundred yard* - from tho hotel. Witness locked him up, and ho was all right then. Next morning witness visited him at 8.30 "*■ o'clock, and the man said ho was bad. and asked for whisky. He bad been vomiting in the cell during tho night. ' . At 9.30 a.m., witness called in Dr. Pembcrton, who proscribed for him. Tho man rallied, and became much better, being left to walk outside tho cell. Tho following morning he complained of pain in his kidneys, and the doctor was again called "in. Ten minutes later,' the accused was taken to Court and remanded to prison for six days* medical treatment by tho doctor, who was also a Justice of tho Peace. Accused had been drinking at Littlo River for several days. Witness brought him to Cliristchurch by tho 11.50 o'clock train on thc 26th inst. Tho accused was conveyed by tho same train to Lyttelton. Tho Coroner recorded a verdict that deceased died from gastro-enteritis, and said that the caso would be duly brought before tho authorities. This was tho second death during this month of men remanded to Lyttelton for medical treatment. Some other provision should be made than sending such cases to gaol.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14887, 29 January 1914, Page 7
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