Inquest.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7847, 26 May 1904, Page 5

Inquest.

. An inquest was held at the Oourt House this afternoon into the Circumstances surrounding the sudden death yesterday of Nicholas Dyer. The distefct Coroner, Captain Tjlowiem, presided, and the following jr.ry was empannelled :—T. Rodgers (foreman),- A. J. Senn, J. H. Arnofct, J. Burke, J« M. Hicksbn; ancJ 0. W. Eitchie. Dr, "Martin saitl lie Had made a posfl mortem examination of the Wdy" B Deceased was suffering irom fatty 'degeneration of the heart and • liver. The lungs-were also affected. Beceasdfl was also slightly 'diseased 'on one side of the brain. This symptom would account for the partial paralysis 'deceased suffered from. The cause of death was fatty disease of the heart and liver v>robS^, ably accelerated by an attack ;of influenza. There were no sigjns ' of irritant poisoning. The remaining organs were comparatively healthy, but deceased was npt- a Healthy man. , • Annie Dyer, aged 13 years, said her father had been ill for three days past and had complained of .-, .something' in his throat which ho ♦was unable to cough up. - She had •i attended. to .her father's wants. She took him some tea and toast yesterday morning. He could scarcely speak . Witness 'did not see 'him for three-qfiiarters of an hour later and he was then 'dead. Her father did not have a doctor antl some 'days ago" he told witness" he thought she ' was going to lose her ,father. She cried and he said he "did not mean1 it, ' Her father Had been" in failingl HealtH for some time" past.--(Left Sitting), \..X