CAUSE OF DEATH.
♦ UNUSUAL EVIDENCE AT INQUEST. Mr H. Y. Widdowson, Coroner, yeserday concluded the adjourned inquest on Charles Nelson, a retired fisherman, who was found dead hanging by a cord in his cottage at Lyttelton on Saturday afternoon. The inquest was opened on Sunday, when medical evidence was given that death was probably due to heart failure and. not to hanging. A post-mortem examination was ordered. Dr. B. H. Gilmour said that ho had conducted a postmortem examination. He found the heart in a condition of syncope, and the heart muscles in a state of fatty degeneration. Th other organs were normal. The cause of death was syncope due- to emotional stress superimposed on the fatty degeneration of the heart muscles. The stress was caused by deceased's preparation to hang himself. The Coroner returned a verdict m accordance w r ith the medical testimony.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18672, 22 April 1926, Page 11
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