CONFLICTING EVIDENCE AT INQUEST
[Per Press Association. CovyrightJ PALMERSTON N., This Day.
An inquest was concluded concerning the death of Taitoke Te Matai, aged 70, a Maori, of Mangawhata, who died in a private hospital on November 11. The verdict was that death was due to coma, caused by cerebral compression following a head injury accidentally received.
The coroner said that evidence was very conflicting. He had not the slightest doubt that the cause of death was contributed to in an altercation at deceased’s residence. From evidence regarding a statement deceased made to a doctor, very grave suspicion arose that the cause of death was a blow received in an altercation, he continued.
That was contradicted by other witnesses, but in the coroner’s judgment he was inclined to believe that the injury was received through a blow on the head, but he did not think it was given with any intention of causing the grave injury that resulted.
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Northern Advocate, 28 November 1936, Page 5
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