INQUESTS HELD

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24743, 7 December 1945, Page 3

INQUESTS HELD

CORONER'S VERDICTS

A verdict that Matthew Anderson McDowell, a labourer, aged 60, of 25 Coleridge street, died at Christchurch on November 25, the cause of death being suicide by gas poisoning while in a depressed mental condition, was returned by the Coroner,- Mr Raymond Ferner, at an inquest yesterday afternoon. The Coroner also returned the following verdicts:—

That Ada May Prisk. a married woman, aged 56, of 540 Hereford street, died at New Brighton on November 1, the cause of death being suicide by drowning; that the death of Albert Crozier. a farmer, SEE* 58, io f 143 Lower st * x road, on October 18. was caused by heart failure following degeneration of the coronary arteries; and that Thomas Feather a farmer of Te Oka. Little River, died on November 10 of the effects of a £racet,?7f„^,ssun suff s r «i when he accidentally fell from a bridge under construction at Little .RiveTW Octobers.