DEATH AT WINCHESTER.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2566, 10 October 1893, Page 3

DEATH AT WINCHESTER.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — Your issue of the 3rd iust. contained a report of an inquest re the death of Mr W. E. Bell, of Winchester. Many of the most suggestive details of evidence however, were not included in that report. There are several persons in Winchester whj (if they would), could testify that the deceased was quite drunk on the afternoon of Friday. But they seem to be unwilling to give such evidence, fearing to render t hemselves obnoxious to neighbours, near whom they are compelled to live. ISorae individuals are now spreading the statement that the man was starved through the negligence of his daughter. That statement, from what 1 know of the facts, is a downright falsehood, The jury could not, I think have found a different verdict from the evidence, and I don’t think the police could have obtained much more, but there was not a man present at the inquiry, from the R.M. down to the silent observers, but felt certain the poor fellow’s death was the direct result of intoxicating drink. 1 write this on behalf of the children, who, in addition to suffering the loss of their father, are injured by base and false assertions. —I am, etc., J. Bellow.