THE BUCKS' CAMP AFFAIR.
' INQUEST: DEATH FROM SUFFO- . CATION. - (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, November 19. The inquest on William Henry Whiter sides, who was found dead after a drunken spree at Bucks' camp, is! proceeding. \ The doctor who made ta' post-mortem examination said there was' no external evidence of recent violence. There wa?\ an ,effusion of blood in the lungs as if the anan had been struck a blow, but not , sufficient to cause death. There was'evidenee that death was : caused by suffocation, It was easy for a drunken man. to be suffocated by falling on his face. One witness 'stated that deceased complained to him early in the evening of having been struck by Jack' Sheldon with a lump of'wood. John Thomas Sheldon, who was cautioned by the Coroner before giving evidence, stated that the row started'in the whare between Kennedy, Whitesides and himself. He left tho whare and went to " Bucks', shanty, and slept there until daylight. He had. had no personal guarrel with Whitesides. ' The jury returned a verdiot that deaths was due,to.jauffocation.,, /, _,' n .
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1602, 20 November 1912, Page 6
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177THE BUCKS' CAMP AFFAIR. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1602, 20 November 1912, Page 6
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