IMPASSE AT INQUEST
NX) EVIDENCE OF CAUSE OF
DEATH
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
CHBISTCSUBCH, This Day,
1 That there was no indication as to how he met his death was the verdict returned by Mr. E. D. Mosley, the Coroner, yesterday at the inquest on John James Michael Barrett, aged forty-one, a labourer, who was found dead in bed at his house, .104, Queen street, Sydenham, on 12th January. "It is an impasse as far as the cause of death ia concerned," remarked the. Coroner. "It is the first tim» in my experience of hundreds of inquests that I have had to give a verdict like this." The police said that the man had been dead some time. When the body was found it was impossible to see if there were any marks of violence. -
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 26, 31 January 1930, Page 11
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134IMPASSE AT INQUEST Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 26, 31 January 1930, Page 11
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