A MYSIERIOUS DEATH.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 533, 19 June 1909, Page 10

A MYSIERIOUS DEATH.

. The mysterious death of William Hamilton Hill' Pettigrew, aged' 37," 'of • Porteus lload, Paddington, 'who. was found .drowned: in tho Long water, Kensington. Gardens, on Good. Fmaij, morning,. was (says a London paper) in noway, explained nX-ulic inquest' at ,West-, minster on 'fuosdny.: Mr. Robert GcotgoHill' Pottigrew,- of .'Coatbridge, .identified: th<>' de-; 'as ; , his brother,■ who, lie said; had; been in London: for two years, and was Living; ona Icgitcy'of £4000. left him' By-' his.father. -Tlo.hail also'boon doing business with a . Scottish. .Union /Insurance' Company./ On the previous Wednesday ; -tho: brother .wrote •him saying that'it was, his, intention-to. spend; Easter, pn the .Continent,'and.on Saturday he} '^• ; 33f.sriiprised rat : receiving .'a ,tc!egn«n-.stat-ing that ho had, been, drowned.. His-brother; was ■ never,- melancholy, ,'ha'd' plenty of .money,:' and was, in no : trouble.' -Two .'years:ago', witness. was. informed that'liis' brotiifer's/heart, was Veaki - ; Tho •Oorpnerkt,'t^itoS»«^,'''Mi i ;' ißoome, , road • tho last letter "written' by the; deceased gentleman: to his brother: Jameß, O'Brien, a plumber's' labourer, described how on- 'Friday 'mbriing at-5.80 he noticed some, gentleman's 1 clothingfhanging '' on: the • railings:new' tljo' ; Long ■ Water;'.. Further on ho found-a-pair of .socks, by 'tho water's edge, and, becomings suspicious, ho had ' a good loot round. : Ho : then skwvthfe'■ deceased P gentle-: njaii's body; in : the, water. Constable,' Callowayi said'thiit' Ho. Seatehed the .clothing and' found' £40 in ( Bahlc;df /England' notes and' a'Bank' of STOtkjid "demand 'note-for ' also '.various coins, four ' Now Testaments,. and a good'dfeal' of' correspondencq." 1 None of tho latter revealed ■' that' .the deceased suffered from religious 'mania. Dr.' Edward Blackett, surgeon,' statoU tbat'deatfti- was due to asphyxia'l>y drowning, and a verdict of "Found drowned" was returned. / .. , . . Tiio deceasod gentleman was soino few ycara sinco,a l ,resident.of Wellington,:andwas then -a . member, of an Association, Football Club of this .city. . :'. . .. .'. ■