MAN FOUND DEAR IN LIFT WELL
VERDICT OP ACCIDENTAL DEATH
(nuess ASSOCIATION tblsokam.) AUCKLAND, October 8. “That the lift wa« defective on the day of the accident, I have no doubt,” said Mr F. K Hunt, S.M., the coroner. in returning a verdict pf accidental death, at the lnqu..i into the death ~f Harold Francis Churton, aged 63, of Mount Eden, whose body was found at the bottom of the lift well in Cooke’s Building, Queen street, on September 17. . ■ ' , , Much evidence was given about the operation of an automatic lift in the bulging, but the coroner said that the explanations of the Witnesses did not satisfy him. , The police evidence was that bloodstains and other marks in the lift well were consistent with the falling of a body, which must have dropped from above the third floos.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21909, 9 October 1936, Page 4
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