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Evening Star, Issue 14038, 20 April 1909, Page 8

At Sheerness last month the district coroner held an inquest on John King, a laborer, aged fifty-six. Evidence was given that on the previous Tuesday the man had done a day’s work—the first for several weeks—and 'died the some evening from heart failure, brought about by cold and lack cf nourishment. The doctor having concluded his testimony, a neighbor told how King had : come to Sheerness a few weeks ago unemployed and destitute. He and his wife, however, were freely given a room to sleep in by an old lady who was herself very poor, her meals being chiefly composed of leavings given by the person next door. On the Sunday King and his wife were seen sitting at the dinner table with two baked potatoes between them. This was all the fcod in the house, and they had lived on carrots for three weeks. The coroner and jurymen all gave surprised exclamations as the evidence proceeded, and the verdict- of “ Death from natural'causes ” was a bitter