WIDOW’S FATAL DRAUGHT
ATTEMPT TO EASE PAIN EVIDENCE AT INQUEST (Special to TEE SUN.) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. According to evidence given at the inquest on Katrine Christina Easterly rook, a widow, aged 61, who died in hospital as the result of drinking methylated spirits, she told her son that she had taken two cups full of methylated spirits to induce sleep, as she had been in great pain. She was a strict teetotaller, her son told the coroner, and used the spirits in a lamp. She had denied to him attempting suicide. Mrs. Easterbrook had been in ill-health for a year.
A house surgeon at the hospital gave evidence that deceased said she took a bottle of methylated spirits at noon and two cups full at night in order to get to sleep, but he did not think she took any before midnight. Death was due to heart failure, caused by the depressing action of the spirits. The coroner, Mr. H. A. Young, returned a verdict accordingly*
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 239, 29 December 1927, Page 16
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