DOCTOR POISONED

Grey River Argus, 23 September 1937, Page 5

DOCTOR POISONED

On Ferrv Steamer INQUEST INCONCLUSIVE. CHRISTCHURCH, September 22. No evidence of his intentions, or of how poison came to be taken by him ,was submitted at the conclusion of the inquest into the death of Dr. Kenneth Entwhistle Bury, medical practitioner, aged 43 years, which occurred on August 12 on the ferry steamer. After commenting on the lack of this evidence, Mr E. C. Levvey, Coroner, found that Dr. Bury had died from heart failaure as the result of poisoning by either morphia or luminal, and probably by a combination of the two. Large quanaities of luminal and morphia had been found in Bury’s stomach, said Dr. Ejdgar Frederick Thomson, assistant pathologist at Christchurch Public Hospital, in giving evidence of the results of a post mortem examination. Bury was found unconscious in his cabin on board the inter-island steamer, when she was berthed at Lyttelton. He had for some time practised at the Chatham Islands. Deceased had not been allowed to retain registration . Chatham Islanders had interceded for him.