ARRESTED MAN’S DEATH

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1036, 29 July 1930, Page 16

ARRESTED MAN’S DEATH

COLLAPSE FROM PNEUMONIA IN POLICE CELL VERDICT AT INQUEST Pi'css Association CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. Tho inquest concerning the death of Frank Vincent Gully, who died in a police <*ell while under arrest for drunkenness on July. 15, was concluded today. The evidence of Dr. E. F. Thomson, pathologist at Christchurch Hospital, who made a postmortem examination, was to the effect that Gully had died of bronchial pneumonia. According to other evidence, Gully had been until July 14 a labourer on the public works at Motukarara. He had been ill at the camp a week before he left. He was arrested when drunk at three o’clock in the afternoon, and admitted having had a good deal of liquor, and made no complaint of feeling unwell either when he arrested or in the cell afterward. The police cor. f table on duty had visited Gully, who was in a cell by himself, at five o’clock. He was asleep, and the constable placed more blankets over him. When the cell was next visited at seven o’clock, Gully was dead. The magistrate found that the cause of death was bronchial pneumonia. He added that all the police regulations had been complied with, and there was no indication when Gully was arrested that he was suffering, from anything other than drunkenness.