SUDDEN DEATH.
A young man named Thomas Maxwell, formerly a fireman on board the Union ComTa ?P°> died ver y suddenly ?°j? C J ialmers J last night. It appears that the deceased left that vessel about seven weeks ago during the strike, and proceeded up country, but quickly returned to town and shipped as fireman on board the steamer Wellington ; but, owing to ill health he was compelled to leave that vessel at wh . ere ,£e got a passage back to Port Chaimers in the Taranaki, landing at last. He then went to M Quire s Commercial Hotel. Durinc his stay there his health is stated to have been rery delicate, and he made frequent complaints of severe pains in his head. This continued until yesterday evening, when the last person who saw him alive was a servant of the hotel named Mary O’Connell. He was then in bed. At a quarter past eleven, James Delaney, his room mate, on going up to bed found him dead. An inquest was held this afternoon at M‘Quire’s Commercial Hotel, before Dr O’Donoghue, district coroner, when a verdict of “ died from natural causes ” was returned.
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Evening Star, Issue 4100, 18 April 1876, Page 2
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193SUDDEN DEATH. Evening Star, Issue 4100, 18 April 1876, Page 2
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