DEFECTIVE LIFT
VERDICT AT INQUEST
(By Telegraph,—Press. Asspclatlon.}
AUCKLAND, October 8.
"That the lift was defective on the day of the accident I have, ho doubt," said Mr. F, K. Hunt, S.M., Coroner, in returning ,a verdict, of accidental death at the inquest into the death of Harold' Francis Churton, aged 63, of Mouni; Eden, whose body was found at the bottom of a lift well in Cooke's Building, Queen Street, on September 17. ' •
Much evidence was given concerning the operation of tho automatic lift in the building, but the Coroner said the explanations of witnesses did not satisfy him. Police evidence was that bloodstains and other marks in the lift well were consistent with the falling of the body, which must have dropped from above the third-floor.
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Evening Post, Issue 87, 9 October 1936, Page 6
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