INQUEST.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6500, 27 December 1881, Page 5

INQUEST.

An inquest was held at the Ckmdm Hotel atil ft.ro- yesterday before Dr J. W. 8. Coward, Coroner, and » jury of If, on the body of Bichord Huettor, who m tend dead on the premises of Morton • Hotel on Sunday rooming. Mr Francis CHrtU was chosen foreman of the jury, and after the body had been viewed John 3. Speight, n barman at Merton's Hotel, deposed that m fuoday rooming about &» he new deceased in the dining-room taking a cup of Urn. He was subsequently ■rophed with a second cap. After' the wtweee had h#4 breakfast ho noticed that tetesed had left the dining-room, the eeoood eup of tea being imteuehed. About a quarter to eleven, sousing the cup of tea idiityro touched, and that dowsed tea wt tamed, went to (lie urinal where he found dooMMd lying on hie right ride, apparently deed. 'With the rook's eeristenco wito*M carried dm wad to tbo dining-room, and root forth* Mr Huettor had not nrov tons Jy complained of IBaaaa. On irtwdav night, about 10A0. when be toft the botef heww troder the Influence of liqtwr. Deroseed resided at Coker'# Hotel. ... J. E. Coker deponed that foe fend Iroowis deceased for yeare. ll# bad been staying at witness' hotel tor the tori fortnight since bis arrival from England by toe tosdy Jmtelyn. lie bad not complained of bring ill at alt On Saturday night he slept at the hotel, but witness did not see him the following rooming* Constable Henry deposed to attending to toe removal of My to too Morgue. Dr F. G. M. Britton said be bad mode a post mortem examination of the body. Them were no external marks of violence. There woe intone congestion of the brain. The lungs wore diseased i and the heart; fatty end enlarged, os were also the liver and kidneys. Considered that the cause of death woe serous "set**# Ihe evidence, and the jusy returned a verdict of "Death from natural oausss."