FRACTURED SKULL

Evening Star, Issue 19551, 9 May 1927, Page 8

FRACTURED SKULL

MAH FOUND IN RIGHT-OF-WAY ■ ♦ INQUEST OH ALEXANDER M'GHEE The inquest on Alexander M'Ghee, who was found injured in a right of way at the Metropolitan Hotel on April 22, was concluded to-day by Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M. Dr E. F. D’Ath said ho had mado a post mortem examination. He was of the opinion that deceased died from intracranial hemmorhage, resulting from a fracture of the skull. The examination also disclosed that deceased was the subject of extensive heart disease, the result of degeneration of his blood vessels. Charles Henry Wakefield, a porter employed at the Metropolitan Hotel, said ho saw the deceased op Friday, April 22, at about 8 a.m., in the sitting room at the hotel. Deceased was sitting on the couch. Witness saw him a little later, and he was perfectly sober. After 9 a.m. someone told him there was a man in the right of way. The man was M'Ghee. Witness and the licensee carried deceased into tho sitting room. He appeared to ho in a fit. He did not regain consciousness. Catherine Drennan, a waitress at the hotel, said that M'Ghee had some breakfast between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. He seemed quite normal and was sober. Michael Kean, licensee of the hotel, said be knew deceased very well. Ho came to the hotel at 10.15 p.m. on April 21, and booked for the night. It was seen that M'Ghco had been drinking, and he had three more beers before retiring. Witness saw him going into the dining room in the morning, and ho was quite all right. After having taken him from the right of way into the hotel, M'Ghee mumbled _ something Witness returned twenty minutes later, and asked him how ho was. M'Ghee! replied; “Leave me alone. I am all right.” Witness visited deceased periodically, and when M'Ghee did not improve ho sent for the doctor. Ho was unable to account for the condition in the way deceased was iound. No drink was supplied to him on the Friday morning. He did not tell deceased s brother that M'Ghee had fallen in the passage. Evidence was also given hy a brother and a sister. A verdict in accordance with tho medical evidence was returned.