OLD MAN’S FATE
HE WOULD LIVE ALONF.
Found dead in iho cellar of a large house, ;n which he lived alone, a Londoner, Joseph Henry Kirnor, aged 91. of Islington, was the subject of an inquest at St. Pancras. at which n verdict of accidental death was i ecorded.
Sir Bernard Spilsbury attributed death to a clot of blood, which probably caused Khmer to fall down the cellar steps and receive fatal injuries.
It was stated there wore four or five inches oj' water in the cellar, the bottom step was broken, and the wood had rotteu. The Rev. Percy John Henry Kirner. of Stranton Vicarage. West Hartlepool, son of the dead man, said his father insisted on living alone, although he had repeatedly asked him not to do so
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20139, 8 January 1940, Page 5
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