ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1087, 28 March 1911, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

DEATH FROM NATURAL CAUSES. INQUEST AT THE MORGUE. The City Coroner (Dr. A. M'Arthur) held an inquest at the.Morgue yesterday afternoon touching the death of a married man, named William Nicholas Lys, who was found dead in bed. at Heavey's board-ing-house (tlio old Star and Garter Hotel), Cuba Street, yesterday morning. StationSergeant Rutledge, of Mount, Cook, represented the police.. Evidence adduced at the inquest showed, that, deqeaseij. jsaij, a;,nativc of London,. 57 years of age, and-usually followed the occupation'of cook and night porter. Oh Monday night, March 20, he engaged a bed at Heavey's boarding-house, and at that time was breathing heavily and apparently suffering a good deal, but lie did not request the services of a doctor, and, when asked if ho would care to go to the hospital, replied that ho would try to get there when he could get about. About 11 o'clock on Sunday night deceased asked for a drink of water, and a man, who occupied tlio same room, supplied him with one. Deceased was moaning, coughing, and.spitting while in bed. Yesterday morning, about 5.30, he was .found dead. The indications were that deceased had suffered from acute eczema. A verdict was returned of "Death from natural causes."

ACCIDENTAL DROWNING. (By Telegraph,—Press Association.) Dunedin, March 27. An inquest on the human remains found at St. Clair at the end of last week, suggested to bo those of Joseph Williams, who. was drowned a little more than a fortnight ago while bathing, was held today. After evidence had been given, tlio coroner. (Dr. Graham) said it was unfortunate that the remains had been so far injured in the sea that they were not capable of positive identification. Taking everything into consideration, the accident oil March 12, in which Williams was known to have lost his life, the proximity of the remains to the place of the accident the evidence of Dr. Ogston as to details of the fragments which ho had examined, and its confirmation by deceaesd's brother, he thought it left 110 possible doubt as to whether the remains were thoso of Joseph Williams. He would therefore record a verdict that these were the remains of Williams, and thus perhaps prevent trouble in future. There was no doubt it was a case of accidental drowning.