REMITTANCE MAN'S DEATH INQUEST CONCLUDED

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 28, 3 February 1914, Page 3

REMITTANCE MAN'S DEATH INQUEST CONCLUDED

Hearing of evidence was resumed before Mr. \V. G. Riddell, S.M., yesterday afternoon concerning the death of George Stuart Henry, a remittance man, who died in the Hospital on the 24th January, as the result of injuries received at Lower Hutt on the 22nd January. The deceased boarded at the Bellevue Gardens Hotel. Henry Henderson said he was a labourer, and that on the 21st and 22nd January he was so employed at the Bellevno Gardens Hotel. He last saw the deceased alive the night of the 22nd January. He then saw him about twenty or thirty yards away from the entrance to the gardens: Deceased was lying on the footpath. This was about ten minutes past 10. Deceased made an effort to rise, and witness helped him up and took him to Bellevuo. When they reached tho corner of the hotel he was standing talking to the deceased, when the latter fell over. Witness did not quite succeed m getting him up, and he tell over again. They both talked for a time, and witness tried to get him to come to the hotel, but he said : "Leave me alone, i will be all right." Witness went into the lavatory, and when he came out the deceased was nowhere to be seen. He concluded that Henry had gone to the hotel. It was about 10.30, and witness then went to bed. To Ihe Chief Detective : Deceased was intoxicated. He (witness) was also slightly drunk. He did ,not notice whether the deceased's head struck the ground when he fell. On the 23rd January he uttered a cheque for £3 10s 6d, to which the deceased's name was forged. He picked the blank form up in the lavatory on the 21st January. He filled it in about 1.1 o'clock on the 23rd and uttered it the same day. He did not then know that Henry was in a bad way. A tobacco pouch (produced by the Chief Detective) was lying down beside Henry when he found him on the road on the night of tho 22nd. Witness took charge of it for the time being. In a statement made to Detective-Sergeant ltawle at the gaol, he had said that he had neither seen the deceased nor been with him on the night of the 22nd January. This was a lie and was told because he was afraid he would incriminate himself on a charge of forgery. He would swear that he did not strike Henry. Detective-Sergeant Rawle. in his evidence, said that on the 25th January he interviewed the last witness and the following day went out to the Lower Hutt to make enquiries. He carefully examined the ground at the place at which the last witness had said that he saw Henry fall, and there found what appeared to be a fairly large drop of blood. Neil S. Campbell, licensee of the Bellevue Gardens Hotel, recalled, stated that deceased had told him that he was 42 years of age. The Coroner remarked that the verdict must be in accordance with the | medical evidence : that the deceased died from concussion of the brain and from shock following concussion. His Worship commented that there was no evidence to show at what time the deceased received his injuries.

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