MASTERTON FARMER'S DEATH.
THE INQUEST. I By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, November 29. At the adjourned inquest concerning the death of Thomas Joseph McCarthy, a farmer of Masterton, which took place after the deceased had fallen from a train at the Upper Hutt, the Government analyst said he had examined the contents of the stomach and found that there was sufficient strychnine to cause death. The deceaseds widow said that McCarthy used to suffer from heart trouble for which he took tabloids. She did not know what they contained. The Coroner (Dr. McArtnur, S.M.I said that he was not prepared to say there was no doubt the deceased
took his own life. From the medical evidence as to the deceased's state of health he thought any sudden shock such as falling from a train would be likely to cause death. The verdict was that death was probably from syncope caused by the disaased's condition of the body and accelerated by the accident. he (the Coroner) would leave suicide out of the question.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9663, 30 November 1909, Page 6
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171MASTERTON FARMER'S DEATH. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9663, 30 November 1909, Page 6
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