FORTUNE LOST
WILL NEVER ALTERED.
BRIGHTON, September 28.
Death as the result of an accident, has prevented the alteration of a will under which London hospitals and charitable institutions are expected to benefit to the extent of between £20,000 and £25,000. This will is that of Dr. Charles Dai Hamilton, aged 70, who had been staying at a fashionable hotel on Hove front. Last July he became engaged to Miss Elizabeth Page, of Ventnor-vil-las, Hove, and they were to have been married at Christmas. In view of this change in his circumstances Dr. Hamilton had expressed the intention of going to London in a few days’ time to alter his will in his fiancee’s favour. Giving evidence at the inquest to-day Miss Page said she went for a walk with the doctor on Saturday afternoon and afterwards accompanied him to his hotel. . He left her in the lounge and went to a bathroom. Be-
coming alarmed at his long absence, she went to look for him, and found him lying face downwards on the bathroom floor, dead. Medical evidence showed that Dr. Hamilton, who was suffering from blood pressure, had an attack of giddiness which caused him to fall. In falling he struck his head on the door handle and fractured his skull. A verdict. of accidental death was returned.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 November 1933, Page 12
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