DEATH OF COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21908, 8 October 1936, Page 9

DEATH OF COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER

INQUEST AT GREYMOUTH

[THE PRESS Special Service.]

GREYMOUTH, October 7.

A verdict that George Menpes Angus died at Cobden on September 27 from occlusion of the coronary arteries, causing heart failure, contributed to by shock and injuries received in an accident on August 29 to a motor-car in which he was a passenger, and which ' as driven by Wyndham Grady, was returned by the coroner, Mr H. Morgan, at the adjourned inquest into the death of Angus at Greymouth today. Angus was a commercial traveller, of Dunedin. Dr. H. S. Ray said that he was called to the Royal Hotel on August 29, and found Angus suffering from fractured ribs on the right side, bruised left knee, and slight shock. He transferred him to Nurse O’Hara’s private hospital, Cobden. Wyndham Grady, a commercial traveller, said that on August 29 he was driving a car with Angus as passenger, and when they were about 100 yards from the Camerons railway station the steering wheel became loose in his hand. He was travelling about 25 miles an hour, and was on the correct side of the road. The car ran to the side of the road, and collided with two tree stumps. Angus was thrown forward. He said that he felt all right, but half an hour later he said that his knee v.as sore, and that the accident had shaken him. They then went to the Royal Hotel.