DEATHS IN CITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 180, 1 August 1925, Page 14

DEATHS IN CITY.

THREE INQUESTS CONCLUDED.

FOUND IN THE HARBOUR.

Three adjourned inqaesta. were held before the coroner, Mr. J. W. Poyhton, S.M., at the Courthouse this morning. Sergeant Flanmgan represented the police in all cases. In the case of Norman Brasier, the employee of the Mount Albert Borough Council, whose body was found floating in the harbour on July 9, Robert Douglas deposed as to having seen the body from a ferry boat. He procured & dinghy and got it out of the water. From appearances the body had been in the water for some time. Isabella Fielder, boardinfchduse keeper, Grey Street, deposed that the deceased had bOirded with her during May, and had left in the early part of June. He had told witness that he was a returned soldier, arid a labourer by occupation. During the time he was with witness he occasionally became the worse for liquor. At those times ie became helpless. She did not know where he went when he left her house. Ho was a quiet man and did not quarrel. A verdict was returned that Brazier was found drowned, there being no evidence to show how he got into the water. Fall from Wharf. In the case of Cyril Dane Shepperd, the partially blind man, who fell off Winetone's "jetty, Customs Street, on July 18, a verdict was returned that death was due to injuries received through accidentally failing from Winstone's jetty on to a load of telegraph poles on a scow at the wharf. Albert Edward Jennings, master of the scow Dominion, stated that he saw a man fall off the end of the jetty. He ran to his assistance and found deceased in the water. He was taken out'of the water and was found to be bleeding from a wound in the head. Witness got an ambulance and deceased was taken to hospital. A man partially blind would be liable to trip on the stringer at the end of the jetty. Dr. F. E. Webster stSted that shortly before 11 p.m. on July 18 deceased was admitted to the Auckland Hospital suffering from a fracture of the skull. He was operated upon but his condition did not change and he died about 8 p.m. that night. The cause of death was due to cerebral compression caused by the injuries he had received. Old Han's Death. The circumstances surrounding the death of William Edward Cullen, aged 83 years, at the .Sailors' Home on July 0, was the last case. i Charles Withy King, manager of the home, stated that he visited Cullen's room on the morning of July 10. He found him on the bed partially dressed. He was dead. He was an old age pensioner and had stayed at the home for some time. The coroner returned a verdict that death was due to heart failure, probably muscular degeneration of the heart.