RETURNED SOLDIER'S DEATH

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 31, 31 October 1918, Page 4

RETURNED SOLDIER'S DEATH

STENT *L DEPRERSTON BUB TO ' WAR EXPERIENCE. An inquest was held yesterday morniiiif bv Mr. F. V. I?™"*, S.M., mto Uβ circumstances attending Charleslredevick Dowsetfs tragic death, .when took place at the Wellington Hospital at midcalled to No. 31 Karori Road about 8 p m. on Monday he round the deceased Iyinu on the floor in a pool of blood. He was still alive and moaning, and apparently the main blood vessels had not be.cn severed. Witness drew the wound together, and shortly afterwards the man was placed in an ambulance. He railed for a short time, and spoke a few words. Death was due to. loss of blood and ehock following , , upon a BoU-innicted wound with a razor. " Frederick.William Dowsett, father of the deceased, said his son. who was a single man, 34 years of age/ returned from the front about four or five weeks ago. On Monday evening he showed signs of having had liquor, and at tea time was somewhat argumentative. Hβ seemed to lose control of himself, and struck witness on the chest, and the next moment • stepped hack, and ricking up razor from a ledge in the room, slashed his throat before witness could do anything to interfere. His con did not have himself under proper control, and was at times very much depressed. The neivs of the death of a mnte at. the front upset him very much, and though ho had never threatened to *.ominit suicide, he had said that he would be better off the earth than on it. Futhcrmore since his return from the front, he had been drinking a good deal.' The- coroner returned a verdict that death was due to shock and hemorrhage, following a wound' in the throat, self-in- , flirted, while in a state of severe mental depression duo to war experience.