SUDDEN DEATH AT PETONE
At about 10 o'clock yesterday moming Mrs. M. '0. Clark, of ■ 16,. Man-chester-efcreetr, was discovered lying dead on the garden .path in front of her house. There was no one but deceased in the house after 8.45' a.m., at which hour her daughter had departed for business, Mr. Clark, the husband, having left earlier in the morning. : Deceased was subject to epileptic fits, and- it is surmised that she was seized while standing on the somewhat high verandah, off which she fell, fracturing her skull. At 5 p.m. an inquest was held,. before Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, Coroner. . Formal evidence as to their' absence from home and the liability' of deceased to fits was given by the daughter and husband. Dr. M. W. Ross said that death was caused by laceration of the brain dtie to a fractured skull. Mrs. M. E. Tebbvri*, a next-door neighbour, deposed to speaking to deceased on the' verandah about 9 a.m. and. finding her dead, with her head on the path and her feet on the verandah, about 10 a.m. , ■ The Coroner's finding was that death resulted from injuries caused by falling from a verandah while in an epileptic fit. , '
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 57, 5 September 1917, Page 3
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