A CASE FOR INQUIRY.

Evening Star, Issue 3697, 28 December 1874, Page 2

A CASE FOR INQUIRY.

To the Editot. S !-V~ll eaß !. allow me a little of your spate to shbw the people of Otago bow thin's* are managed on the < f f ' n Sunday night, the 20th inst, a man named James Murray, who had been drinWi fn? b <?r or ‘ hree da ys, left the township for his hut-three miles distant with hA About two hpprs afterwards t’he mate arrived in the Qamp, a»d tpld tlip othp? diggers that Murray was dying. They at once went to his assistance, but he lived but a short time after their arrival. It it reported that hie only woWe after hie mate!

found him were. " I’m glad you’re come ; if 1 get over this I’ll Utter do it again.” A man was dispatched to Oamaru »n M onday to report the case, and he caine back the next day With an order for burial. We are not aware whether the facts of the case were properly laid before the police or not ; but it is the opinion of most people here that an inquest should have been held. Tlds is the third sudden dertb in this place which has been passed over without inquiry, hurely a doctor’s opinion should have been taken as to the cause of death. I have simply stated the case as it happened, and I leave your readers to form their own conclusions.—l am, See., Argus. Maerewhenua, December 24. ' 1