DIED SUDDENLY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 126, 28 May 1914, Page 6

DIED SUDDENLY.

j ARREsTED DXI N"K" . ITCOIB.. \fte-r being .irrcsled outside the rail «ay entrance a- a "drunk." Herbert. I T/Ockwuod. aged about ."iO. and residing !at IS. Victoria Koad. Uevonport. ua.s I taken to t-lie poli.-e cells ln*-t night, hut. owing lo his conditio' . he was later re- ■ moved to the Ho.-J_t.nl. where 'he died shortly after adinitl nice. Dr. Casement Ak-kin made a post mortem examination this morning, hut the exact eau.-c ■_f death has n-ot vet been learned, though lit is thai death wa,s as a re•iiili of .1 fit. l-'n.m letters and other J efTectP taken from him at the poli.-p «-_a. I tion. it would appear lhat deceased was , a remittance man. ami had recently come into a small sum of money. Resides a letter from a Ixmdon firm of solicitor? notifying him thai a. 1.11111 of about £17 ' wais due to him. 'tl'.ere tvas also a pawn- | ticket, showing that he bad been in reI duced circumstances. There was also I a return train ticket in his pocket from I Tauinarumii. I dn being brought to the police station j Lockwood seemed merely to be under the influence of drink, and be apparently 'had no appearance of being in a had je.ta.tr. "When the oon.-taKlp went, bis j rounds rhrongh lhe ceils this morning. he heard "h" man snonn: heavily, and apparently suffering. Dr Aickin wa.? 'summoned, and ordered h - removal :o the bospit.l l . \n ambulance v.is reninsi tioned. and while goin_. across Grafton Rridge ihc m.m d : ,l not -eem to t>o in i.l da noerou- si.cc He . Ildd_nh kicked ■".1 _i-ii h'- !'■■ -. ~; ; „eirv ■ ir c| Ihc eonMable out of lie door of the anwuilanrr. He wa. eventually pir" to bed. hut when Th-. MagniTe later paid a visit to him, he found that he was dead.