FIVE INQUESTS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 7, 9 July 1923, Page 8

FIVE INQUESTS

An inquest was held on the body of Mary <Wilson, a married woman aged 47 years; who died as the result of injuries sustained in an accident while removing a table fi-onii ope room to another. A verdict was given that death was due to shock, following rupture of the bowel, caused by accidentally falling over a table. ■ .

(BI TELEGIUPH-—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ' AUCKLAND, This Day. John Maclvor,, 70 years of age, a settler of Paremoremo,. was found dead, face downwards in mud, outside his cookhouse. Evidence at the inqnest showed that deceased lived alone. A ve,rdict was returned of death from suffocation through falling iv mud during a sei7,ure.

PALMERSTON, N., This Day. At an inquest on the body of Annie Emmerson, a married man, aged 65 years, who was found dead in bed at Te Matai on Saturday evening, the medical evidence showed that all the organs were sound except heart, lungs, and liver. A cold night caused .congestion of the lungs and liver, placing a n added strain on the heart. A verdict was returned acc6vdinitlv.

At tho inquest on the Chinaman, Yep Chun, a>"ed 70 years, who was found dead in bed on Saturday, a verdict of death from natural causes was returned.

At the inquest on the body of Charles William Peacock, aged 56 years, who dropped dead on Thursday "night, the medical evidence was to the effect that deceased's heart showed extensive disease, and a verdict was returned accordingly.