A DOCTOR'S DEATH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 43, 22 February 1915, Page 6

A DOCTOR'S DEATH.

HANDKERCHIEF AND BEDPOST.

Per Press Association,

Dunedin, February 22

At the inquest on the death of Dr. John Bell Thomson, .deceased’s wife said her husband, who was 4G years of age, had been in ill-health and had not been sleeping well. On Friday night he slept well until 3 a.m., when he seemed restless. Witness rose at 7.30, when he seemed to he dozing, and she left him till 9.35. When she returned to the bedroom, she found him lying partly on the floor with his head off the floor, but she didn’t notice a white handkerchief round his neck, and that he was unconscious. j

Dr. McDonald was quickly on the scene and pronounced life extinst. Dr. Fitzgerald, who arrived shortly after, gave evidence that deceased was suffering from nervous depression and insomnia. He said Dr. McDonald had found a handkerchief round his neck, and it was attached to the bed post. Pressure on' the neck had caused strangulation. Deceased was of a nervous temperament. The Coroner returned a verdict of death from strangulation while in a temporary state of insanity.