INQUESTS HELD YESTERDAY
Inquests were held yesterday by the Coroner, Mr H. P. Lawry.
A verdict was returned that Robert Hugh Boyd, a labourer, aged 65, died from heart failure, due to shock, following multiple injuries received in an accident on August 27 at 10.40 p.m., when he was struck by a motor-car as he was walking across the Intersection of Cashel and High streets. Other verdicts were returned as follows : Alexander George Horne, a labourer, aged 65 years, death on August 6 from toxic myocarditis; Clare Wilson, a widow, aged 66 years, death on September 19 from heart failure; Charles Patrick Goldien, a labourer, aged 42 years, death on September 16 from suicide by drowning, accelerated by shock following hemorrhage from a self-inflicted injury.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25031, 13 November 1946, Page 3
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