THE HUTT MYSTERT.
INQUEST ON DECEASED BEGUN, Tii-o inquest conceiving the death, of George Meary, latterly residing at Belkvutj Gardens, Lower Hutt, and who diod under rathci; strange circumstances at the Wellington Hospital oil Saturday Morning, was comiueiiced before i-J'r. IV. 0. lliddell) District Coroner, at tho llos* pit-a-l yesterday afternoon. Dr. T. C. Frasiir, senior liouso surgeon at the Wellington Hospital, gave evidence to tho effect that deeoiicsd was admitted to the institution on January 23 at 12.15 p.m. On witness found that the patient was uncon» scions, his face was discoloured, awl his breathing stertorous. He had a wound on the back of tho head, aii abrasion, above the right eye, and others on the right thigh and right knee, I'm addition, lie had a a slight attack s»f liiwnmonia in the kit lung. ft> wits operated on at 4 p.m. oil the day that he was admitted, and trepanning wns parried out, Dccoascd. did not recover consciousness, and died at 1 a.m. on January 24. In witness's opinion, death was dtio to cnmprafciim of the brain and pneumonia. The injuries received might haws been tho result of a fall or falls. As far iiR the examination nsad(> by witness went, there was nothing to shaw that deceased had been drinking.
At this stage the in-qilf-st Was ad' immwd till 4.15 this afternoon.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1968, 27 January 1914, Page 5
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225THE HUTT MYSTERT. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1968, 27 January 1914, Page 5
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