SUDDEN DEATHS
IMPORTANCE OF PRESERVING EVIDENCE. CORONER’S COMMENTS. Wellington, December 10. The importance of preserving all evidence connected with a sudden death of any person was stressed by Mr T. B. McNeil, S.M.. coroner, at the inquest on Robert Edward Moyna, a returned soldier, who lived at the returned soldiers’ hostel. The evidence showed that on November 22 Moyna was found suffering from what was thought to be an epileptic fit. A doctor was called, but when he arrived Moyna was dead. The deceased’s room was searched, but. nothing unusual was found, and three bottles, one of which contained camphor liniment, were thrown away. As the result of a post-mortem, Dr. Lynch, pathologist at the Wellington Hospital, found that death was due to poisoning by camphor liniment. The post-mortem had been ordered by Mr McNeil because he had been unable to get a certificate as to the actual cause of death. Mr McNeil said that the public should realise that nothing should be destroyed in the event of such happenings, as valuable evidence might be obliterated.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 306, 10 December 1931, Page 7
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