MINER'S DEATH.
EVIDENCE AT XKQVUMT.
(From Our Own -Correspondent.) TAUMAKUNUI, Wednesday.
An inquest into the death of William Harwood Wedge, aged 38, a miner, an employee of Egmoht Collieries at Mangapara, near Ohura, was held this morning by the district coroner, Mr. W. Thomas. The wife of the deceased said her husband had complained of being ill O" August 2 and went to the doctor. He spent the evening at home and intended seeing a friend away •by the evening train. Witnees retired about 10.30 p.m. and when she awakened early the following, morning she found that her bust band had not returned;- She informed her brother-in-law, who fotand lying on the floor of the convenience; Dr. A. B. Sturtevant said the-cause of death was a rupture. The coroner, after hearing evidence by Constable Bradford that there were-no murks of violence on the body, returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 212, 8 September 1938, Page 31
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