INQUESTS AT NAPIER
THREE IN ONE DAY (By Telegraph—Press Association) NAPIER, This Day. At the inquest concerning the death of Timothy McCarthy, whose death prior to Chi'istmas was the cause of many wild rumours, a verdict was returned that death was due to natural causes. The inquest into the death of a man, Norman Edward Christofferson, who had his neck broken when he was thrown fi’om a lorry when it went down a bank near resulted in the coroner i-eturning a verdict that death was due to pneumonia, following severance of the ' spinal column. The thii-d inquest concerned the death of a single woman named Bray Gunn. The police stated that they had failed to ti'ace the movements of the deceased prior to abortion, which may or may not be due to interference. The verdict was that death was due, to septicaemia.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 29 January 1937, Page 4
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142INQUESTS AT NAPIER Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 29 January 1937, Page 4
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