A FIREMAN'S DEATH
BODY BURIED BEFORE INQUEST OPENS. Br TsleirnDh-Pren Aisociatlon,' Christchurch, October 19. Not very often is a burial conducted before an inquest is actually opened on a body. Such a 6tate of affairs has occurred in connection with the death in the Christchurch Hospital of George Murdoch, fireman, of the staamer Aristo, ft single man, aged 28, and belonging; to Glasgow. Murdoch's body was buried yesterday, lit was admitted on July % on his own application and was operated on last Sunday for disease of the spinal • column. He di>>d the same day and was buried yesterday. At tho inquest to-day 1 medical ovidenco was sjiven that death was duo to failure of respiration, cau9>d by a caTcinornntous growth. involThuj the spinal cord. Tho operation was a necessary one, and death must havo eventuated very soon if it had not tyen performed. A verdiot was returned in aceordßnoo jdth the; medical testimony.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 21, 20 October 1920, Page 7
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153A FIREMAN'S DEATH Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 21, 20 October 1920, Page 7
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