DEATH ENDS DISPUTE

Evening Star, Issue 19298, 10 July 1926, Page 9

DEATH ENDS DISPUTE

SON'S ACTION AOAINST FATHER SUDDEN COLLAPSE OF FATHER [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, July 10. One of the leading figures in what lias become known as the Thatcher case died yesterday, one day after his solicitors had filed a defence in an action against him by Ills son, to have been hoard in tho Supreme Court. Tho son, Porcival E. Thatcher, recently figured in a case in the Magistrate’s Court, in which his stepmother claimed £Bl 5s 6d for board. The father (deceased), the son, and the stepmother bad been living in the house on tho estate, which was halfowned by the son. In evidence in that case the son said that lie had received only £336 from the estate, while his father had received £6,000 or £7,000. Tho action in the Supreme Court was to have involved allegations by the son that his father had not accounted for certain moneys coming from tho estate. To-day Mr Poynton, S.M., inquired into the circumstances of the death of the father, Thomas Clifton Rowley Thatcher. Dr Murray, who made the post mortem, said that, in his opinion, death was duo to syncope, following on a fatty heart. There was no externa! evidence of any poison having been taken. Witness had secured the organs for analysis. The inquiry was adjourned pending this analysis.