MAN’S DEATH AFTER CONVULSIONS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21976, 28 December 1936, Page 8

MAN’S DEATH AFTER CONVULSIONS

* EVIDENCE AT INQUEST (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, December 26. The story of a Christmas morning tragedy in a bed-si tting r room in Great North road occupied by a couple who were married a fortnight ago was told at an inquest' this morning by Mrs Vera Elizabeth Weston. Mrs Weston said that she retired to bed at 1 o’clock in the morning. Her husband, Nathaniel Charles Henry Weston, aged 38, a tinsmith, followed a little later after opening a bottle of beer. He commenced crying and when asked what was the matter said, “Well, don’t you love me any more?” Witness replied that she did. “Well, it is too late now,” he said, and asked her to kiss him goed-bye. He said he had taken poison before going to bed. He then went into convulsions. A doctor was called, and her husband was removed to the hospital, where he died five minutes after admission. Mrs Weston added that she had lived happily with her husband. There had been no disagreement. They had visited her husband’s mother during the afternoon. He had had a few drinks,but was not intoxicated. The inquest was adjourned until tomorrow for the taking of medical evidence