INQUEST VERDICT
A LACK OF EVIDENCE.
DOCTOR POISONED ON STEAAIER
(Pei Press Association —Copyrigni;
CHRISTCHURCH, September 22
No evivdenee of his intentions, v»r of how poison came to be taken ny him, was submitted at the conclusion of the inquest into the death of Dr. Kenneth Kntwhistle Bury, medical practitioner, aged 43 years, which occurred on August 12 on the ferry steamer.
After commenting on the lack of this evidence, Air E. C. Levv*'y, Coroner, found that Dr Bury had died from heart failure as the result of poisoning by either morphia or luminal, and probably by a combination of the two.
Large quantities of luminal and morphia had been found in Bury’s stomach, said Dr. Edgar Frederick Thomson, assistant pathologist at Christchurch Public Hospital, in giving evidence of the results of a postmortem examination. Bury was found unconscious in his cabin on board the inter-island steamer, when she was berthed at Lyttelton. He had for some time practised at the Chatham Islands. Deceased had not been allowed to retain registration. Chatham Islanders had interceded for him.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1937, Page 4
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