BUCK’S CAMP CAROUSAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 73, 19 November 1912, Page 6

BUCK’S CAMP CAROUSAL.

INQUEST PROCEEDINGS. (Per Press Association.) Auckland, November 19. The inquest on William Henry Whitesides, who was found dead after a drunken spree at Buck’s Camp, is proceeding. The doctor who made the post-mortem said there were no external evidences of recent violence. There was an effusion of blood from the lungs, as if the man had been struck a blow, but it was not sufficient to cause death. There was evidence that death was caused by suffocation. It was easy for a drunken man to be suffocated by failing on his face. One witness stated that deceased complained to him early in the ■'evening of having been struck by Jack Snoldori with a lump of wood. John Thomas Sheldon, who was cautioned by .the Coroner before giving evidence, stated that the row started in the wharo between . Kennedy, Whitesides, and himself. He left the whare and went to Buck’s shanty, and slept there, until daylight. He had no personal quarrel with Whitesides. The jury returned a verdict of death by suffocation.