KAKARAMEA.
(0 051 OUK CORRESPONDENT.) Sudden Death. —An event which has thrown a gloom over our small community occurred on Sunday last. A man nnmn.il .lam»« Snnndovson, wllO has been employed at Mr M'Rae’s boilingdown establishment, while engnged in feeding pigs fell down and expired, apparently in a fit. I cannot give yon
further, particulars until after the coroner’s inquest.
, s Monday Evening. The, inquest was held this afternoon before Wray, coroner, at the Kakaramca Hotel. A jury of 12 was mustered with shine: difficulty-.; ;; Evidence was given ‘of the debased falling suddenly and groaning, and dying before brandy could be fetched to him. Dr Keating deposed that he had .made a 2WSt mortem examination of the body, and found that death-had resulted from aneurism of the aorta. A tumor had formed in this blood vessel behind the breast-bone, at the top, and the bursting of the tumor while the man was exerting himself had flooded the heart and caused death. The jury relumed a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence.
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Patea Mail, 20 July 1880, Page 2
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