SUDDEN DEATH AT TAUPIRI.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1553, 17 June 1882, Page 3

S UDDEN DEA TH A T TA UPIRI.

An inquest was hold at Taupiri on Thursday, before Dr Beale, coroner, and a jury of twelve, of which Mr W. H. M. Lovell was chosen foreman, touching the death of an old man named Luke Shaw, who was found dead in his bed the previous day. It appeared from the evidence of the witnesses examined, Adolphe Fowier and Walter Schofield, that the deceased was about 60 years of age, single, and followed the calling of a bushman. He lived in a small one-roomed hut at Taupiri, alone. Shaw had made arrangements to go to work with Fowler on Wednesday, and both witnesses were at the hut on Tuesday evening, Fowler on business. Next (Wednesday) morning Fowler went down to deceased's hut at about half-past seven, and getting no answer to his knock, got in at the window. He found Shaw lying on his bed dead, and quite cold and stiff. He must have been dead for some hours. Witness was up the Mangawhare Creek with deceased on Tuesday, but did not hear him complain of being ill. Constable Hammond deposed to having examined the body, and to finding no marks of violence upon it, and after a short deliberation the jury returned a verdict to the effect that death had resulted from natural causes.