DEATH IN POLICE CELL

Hawera Star, Volume L, 29 July 1930, Page 5

DEATH IN POLICE CELL

CIRGUMSTAN CES 1N VEST! GATED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, July ! 28. The inquest into the death off rank Vincent Gully, who died in a police-cell while under arrest for drunkenness on Julv 15, was concluded to-day. Iho evidence of Dr B. F. Thom®on, patliologist at the Christchurch Hospital, who made a post-mortem examination, was the Gully had died of bronchia,l pneumonia. . According to other evidence Gully had been until July 14 a labourer on public works at Motukarara. He had been ill at the camp a week before lie left. He was arrested, drunk, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. He admitted having had a good deal of liquor and made no complaint of feeling unwell, either when arrested or in the cell afterwards. . . A constable on duty had visited Gully, who was in the cell alone at 5 o’clock. The prisoner was asleep and 1 the constable placed more blankets over him. When the cell was next visited at 7 o’clock Gully was dead. The magistrate found that the cause of deatli was bronchial pneumonia. He added that all the police regulations had boon complied with and that there was no indication when Gully was arrested that he was suffering from anything other than drunkenness.