YOUNG MAN'S DEATH

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21456, 24 April 1935, Page 18

YOUNG MAN'S DEATH

INQUEST OPENED AND ADJOURNED j An inquest into the death of Archie George Mould, aged 24, of Little River, who was found dead on Monday evening in the yard of a nursing heme in Kirkwood avenue, Riccarton, where he was a patient, was opened yesterday morning before Mr H. I - Lawry (coroner), and adjourned until Friday. Evidence of identification was given by Dr. T. M. Beale, who said that Mould, who was 24 years of age, as-j sisted his father with farm work at Little River. On Tuesday of last week he examined Mould, and he found him in a confused and nervous condition. Witness visited Mould in the nursing home at Riccarton on Thursday, and he seemed happy and contented. Dr. L. B. Stringer gave evidence that he was called to the nursing home at 7.40 p.m. on Monday. He found Mould's body lying in the yard. The back of the skull was badly fractured. The body was near a tank-stand, and there were marks on the paint on the stand which were consistent with somebody having recently climbed up it. He considered that death was caused by a fracture of the skull and laceration of the brain, caused by M.ould falling backwards from a considerable height off the tank-stand. Witness added that he had seen Mould earlier in the day. He seemed quite normal. The inquest was then adjourned until Friday for the hearing of further evidence.