SUDDEN DEATH AT MIRAMAR

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 90, 10 January 1920, Page 8

SUDDEN DEATH AT MIRAMAR

o rNQUEST AND HADING. jtr P. L. Hollings, S.M., held «n indued yesterday afternoon into the cauoo SU of Clcorge Wilkinson, 02 years of nee. employed as n labomei »t ■ co ™ College, Miraraar, who dropped dead •Xmt 9 o'clock on Thursday morning while at work. The deceased, who was a widower, resided at No. 3 Novthhui Iv'ond with his six chiUlren. II i. Jllivers appeared lor the boaid of ..tots College, and Senior-Sergeant Wndo appeared "for the police. , Dr. Kington I'yfl'c, who made a postmortem examination, sa.d the can.* ol death was syncope, and disease of the antic valves of the heart. To Mr. livers: The disease, of the heart was old, and the condition in wlucli deceased was found would be brought about by a Tiwlua! prows*. It wis a very eoninion cause of sudden death, the• con lition of the heart itself would account for the sudden deatn. Edward Cecil Gnflin, groundsman at Scots College, said lie worked with Wilkinson. At 0 a.m. Wilkinson was eii.'asred in filling a cart with t>aml. \V itneft. went, across and spoke to him; no straightened up, listened to what was said, and then fell back dead. He had made no complaints wlulo working at the college. , William Geoiw lVilkmfon, a son °( the defeased, said that his father had never complained of his heart being att'eeted. Ho appeared to enjoy good health. , . , The Coroner's finding was m accordance with the medical evidence.