INQUESTS AT THAMES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 70, 23 March 1910, Page 4

INQUESTS AT THAMES.

I Inquests -were held on Monday evening on the bodies of two men who, as reported in our issue of yr : =.te.rday. died suddenly at Thames on Monday. In the case of the old a-ge pensioner, Peter Harvey Curtis, ■who was found dead in a house at Karaka Creek, -where he ha*? lived alone for years, the post-mortem examination revealed that death -was dua to lung disease, and a verdict to that] effect was returned. The evidence show- i ed that the old man had been very -weak j for years, and for the last few days of i his life had rapidly grown more frail in j constitution. He was last seen alive on 1 Saturday afternoon by a -boy who brought groceries to him; the boy did not again visit the old man until Monday afternoon, when he was found lying j dead in his bed. The other inquest was held on the body of the man named John Mclsaacs, who had arrived ■with his brother in Thames only four days before hie death. ] The evidence showed that deceased, who I : was a pit-sawyer by occupation, was reading in a room of the Lady Bowen Hotel, when he suddenly fell from his ! chair and was picked up dead. A verdict of death from heart failure was returned according to the evidence given by Dr. Barclay.