CORONER'S INQUEST.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1595, 12 November 1912, Page 6

CORONER'S INQUEST.

DEATH FROM SHEEOCATION. .^ '" fbo odjourne'd. inquest by Dr. Av. W. M'Arthur,- S.M., district coroner, on the body of Jano Hay Aileli, who was found dead in l>od at No. 61 Tinakori Road, on Sunday, November 3, was concluded yesterday, when tho evidence.of Dr. Fj'fl'e was taken. ... , Reviowing the results of his .postmortem examination, Dr. Eyffe said that On November 4, -tho date of the examination, the body, was to an advanced stage of decomposition. Two teeth in the hiwer jaw wore -broken.' Frem all the facts of the case, it was impossible to believe that the deceased had- been dead oiilysiilce'November 2. The condition; of Hie body was more compatible with death taking placo five or six days before' his examination'. The inflamed condition «f the stomach-in-/dioated alcohol. He was of opinion, ;that •deceased bad di«l from suffocation. •■ In answer to Chief Detective Broberg, Df. Fyffe said that the bodies of chronic alcohojics-had a tendency to rapid putre-,, faction, and also those Who died fronj suffocation—congested parts of a body being liable to rapid putrefaction. Charles- Bokk,. recalled, said that der ceasod Was subject to fits.In summing up the evidence, Dr. M'Arthur said that in his opinion the deceased, while, in a state of intoxication,- - fell out of her bed on lief face, and thusbroke the teeth mentioned in the ..«vi*. dence. She apparently had enough sense left to get back into bed, where she rolled over on. her face and ultimately died of ■ suffocation. His finding was in' accordance with that opinion.