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DEATH BY MISADVENTURE

An was held this inorning at Lower Hurt by Mr. E. Gilbertson, Coroner, into .the circumstances of the death of Adam Dennison, a single man, .78 years of age, who died in the Wellington Hospital on August 20.

The evidence disclosed that Dennison lived alone in .a room of the River Shingle Company's plant at Melling. The assumption was that on returning home on Saturday, August 17, he had supper, and when rising to retire to: bed his clothes caught and. half turned on the gas tap of a gas stove. He, -was discovered in a comatose condition in; bed on Monday morning by the-lore* man of the company, Mr. H. W. Eglin-' ton. He was removed to the hospital, by the Wellington Ambulance, where he died on the morning of August 20.' The Coroner said that there was no1 suggestion of suicide, and that hewoul*1 find that the death was•.: from.:.mis»! adventure, ' ■:.'■< -. • i

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Evening Post, Issue 50, 27 August 1935, Page 10

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DEATH BY MISADVENTURE Evening Post, Issue 50, 27 August 1935, Page 10

DEATH BY MISADVENTURE Evening Post, Issue 50, 27 August 1935, Page 10

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