INQUEST.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6498, 24 December 1881, Page 6

INQUEST.

On Thursday afternoon a vouag mao namwi Charles Qu, employed »t teghtband, Allan and do.*# toot factory, m» taken suddenly ill while at work. He went to hi* house on Oxford Terrace east, calling at Dr Townend’s dfetWMu? for some medieir.o en hi# way. abortly after he reached home he became worn, and mediml ©id was sent for, but Qay died before wa doctor arrived. Aa inquest was held yesterday afternoon, before Dr Coward, District Coroner, and a jury cf fourteen. Mr John Hill was chosen foreman, and after the Jury had viewed the body af deceased, the following evidence was taken j-» John Gav! lam brother of deceased. He was 32 yews of age. Until the last three month* ho has been In good health, palely ho has complained of rheumatics in the leg. About »:x week# ago ho bed a sudden pain in the bank of hit head, and had to catch hold ©f a fence to steady himtelf. He *aid he felt he wa» going to have a fit. The feeling passed off *r*rrb« stay ad al home a day or two. Yceterdav, about 20 minutes past 18, Be eaid he fell a*' if hi* head was going to split open, and be would have to go home. I took him home. At half part 51 was sent for. and when I got boo eho was dead, lie had been a moderate drinker, but never went on two or three days* spree. Dr Irving: I have made a post mortem examination of the body of Charles Gay. There were no marks of violence upon it, I found very great coogosUoo of the brain. A very large quantity of sere si escaped when I opened the bead, sufficient to have caused death by pressure on the brain. There were considerable adhesions of the membrane# to the bruin, the result of old disease. The inherence of the heart was soft and flabby. The lungs were pertly adherent at the back. Tito stomach wa* a good deal congested. There wo* a small abscess in the left kidney. The other organs were healthy. I believe ho died from serous apoplexy. The jury found a verdict of “Death from Natural Causes,” At the inquest on the body of the man Quna, drowsed at Akaroa, a verdict cf “ Acci* dental Death” was returned. The only evidence taken sraa that of the eecond mate of the Penguin and the Sergeant of Police at Aikarea. ■