INQUEST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 156, 27 July 1909, Page 4

INQUEST.

An inquest was held yesterday morning, before Mr. H. S. Fitzherocrt, S.U_, coroner, touching the death of Mr, C. F. Crawford on Saturday evening. William P. Crawford, son of deceased, deposed that his father left the house to go down town about 7.30 p.m. on Saturday. He appeared then to be well. His father's heaJth was good as a rule. Deceased would have been 03 years old next month. .William Handle, settler, living in-New Plymouth, who had known defeased for many years and was with him, when he died, stated that deceased appeared to be in his usual health.. He dropped without speaking a word. Witness detailed the manner of Mr. Crawfords death as already described. Dr. G. Home deposed that he was called to the White Hart Hotel shortly before 8 o'clock on Saturday evening. Deceased was dead before witness _ arrived there. There were no indications as to the cause of death, ami yesterday witness made a post-mortem examination of tlhe body. He found death to be due to heart failure, caused by disease of the left coronary artery, whereby it had become suddenly blocked with blood clots. This disease was fairly common in old age, and existed without giving symptoms except the final fatal one. ' The coroner found in accordance with the medical evidence.