STRANGE CAUSE OF DEATH.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1736, 29 April 1913, Page 6

STRANGE CAUSE OF DEATH.

-— « DISCLOSED AT AN INQUEST. (By l'elesra ph.—Press Association.) • Dunodin, April 2S. An inquest was held at the morgue this afternoon 011 the body of George Newton Wilson (aged 13), who died suddenly yesterday afternoon. The evidence of his wife was to the effect that he was a marine engineer, and had been in pcor health for about two years, complaining of sciatica and his heart. Oil April 23 he consulted Dr. llacphcrson, wTio prescribed. On Sunday 110 seemed quite hearty, and she went out at his suggestion, leaving him in bed with a paper. She returned to find him dead. Tho evidence of Dr. Macpherson disclosed that death had been caused by a curious mishap, llrs. Wilson had deposed that deceased had an unusually big ineal at midday on Sunday, and the doctor found that the stomach contained an enormous quantity of food, while, upon opening the larynx, ho found about a tablospoonful of stomach contents in it. Tho man had gone to sleep upon an overloaded stomach, and brought up a mouthful of food which had gone back into the air passages. The coroner (Mr. C. C. Graham) returned a verdict of death from suffocation as the result of food entering the air passages.