DEAD FOR TWO DAYS

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3445, 6 September 1926, Page 4

DEAD FOR TWO DAYS

BEFORE MEDICAL AID CALLED. WOODVILLE HOTELKEEPER'S DEATH. [Per Press Association.] WOODVILLE, last Night. On Thursday last, Mrs. S. Russell, wife of Mr. W. H. Russell, licensee of the Post Office Hotel, Woodville, was found dead in bed. A medical witness gave evidence at the inquest to-day. to the, effect that she had been dead at least two days before he was called in. There was also evidence that she fell on her head in the hotel passage on August 27, and received injuries to her head. The post-mortem revealed that she. had had a haemorrhage of the brain, caused by a fall. The Coroner gave his verdict in accordance with medical testimony, that she died of haemorrhage of the brain, the result of an injury received in a fall on August 27. The Coroner commented strongly on the fact that medical or other aid was not sought at a much earlier period. He said in any case he did not think I hat even If a doctor had been called in, (hat the woman’s life could have been saved.