SUDDEN DEATH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4489, 3 April 1876, Page 2

SUDDEN DEATH.

Abobt nine o'clock last, evening a messenger came to the Police Station from a Mrs. Armstrong, residing in Waketield-street, asking that a constable might be sent to her house, as her husband, who -was suffering from delirium tremens, was acting in a very violent manner. In obedience to the request Sergeant Mnlville and Constable iievell were despatched to the house. On arriving there, Mrs. Armstrong stated that her husband'was then quieter than at any X>revious period of the day. He had been throwing himself out of bed, and threatening to kill himself at frequent hiterva's during the day. Dr. Stockwell had been sent for and visited the jdace. The police then left, after desiring that they might be comniuuicated with if the man's condition again required their services. A little after 10 o'clock, they were informed that the man was dead, and it appeared from the statement made by the wife that, some time after they . had taken their departure from the house, she had ascended upstairs to the room where her husband was lying, and, ou. approaching his bed, was shocked to find that he had expired apparently some little while previously. The woman keeps a milliner or dressmaker's shop near the Kteroy Hotel. The deceased had been drinkiDg heavily for the last fortnight. An inquest will, in all probability, be held on the body either to-day or to-morrow.