INQUESTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 7 September 1907, Page 2

INQUESTS.

Per Press Association. Duncdin, Last Night. An inquest was held to-day into the'-. circumstances surrounding the death of. the man Thomas Murray, who died in the hospital on Thursday morning as- > the result of injuries received by falling..' down the well of a stairway in the',' Gladstone Hotel late on Wednesday-'; night. The evidence showed that- de-. * ceased was perfectly .sober. He wag a~) man of an extremely sober nature, aad'j was subject to racking fits of coughing;! which rendered him quite helpless atjl their height. Deceased was seen to J>™-M ceed upstairs to his bedroom on tho tojfl flat of the building, but no one where he fell from or how he came mt fall. It is presumed that he had h attack of coughing on reaching "the of the stairway, and leaned over 4H balustrade for support, and that oyer- * exertion in ascending the steps, together... with coughing, caused a fainting fit, and • he fell over the balustrade to tbeTiOttom floor. A verdict of death from con- \ cussion of the brain, the result of an accidental fall from a stairway, jrag returned. i Masterton, Last Night. At the inquest on the body of Walter John Pond, aged seventeen yeitrs, which,' was found hanging from a rafter about ■ 5 o'clock last evening above xhe shop he was employed in, the juryjreturned a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane. ■' ''■' f