THE DEATH OF HUGE AITKIN HAMILTON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6567, 4 December 1882, Page 5

THE DEATH OF HUGE AITKIN HAMILTON.

A POLICE INVESTIGATION COMMENCED. We understand that certain rumours have reached the cars of Mr. Superintendent Thomson, iu connection with the peculiar circumstances surrounding the death of Mr. Hugh Hiimiltoc, of Newton, which took on Wednesday last, which have led him to cause a strict investigation to be made into the matter. Detective Strathern, under instructions, is making the necessary enquiries. We believe that these proceedings are taken, not so much from any new circumstances discovered, as on account of a canvassing by the friends of deceased of what transpired at the inquest. It will be remembered that Dr. Walker, when examined at the inquest, stated that he found a triangular wound near the right temple. The skull had been fractured, aud he took out a piece of bone half an inch loug and a quarter of an inch wide. On further examining, he found an incised wound, an inch and a half long, at the bad: of the iieatl He further stated "that he failed to account for the wound at the back of the head." The idea was that Hamilton received the fatal wound on the forehead through fulling forward on the bedstead. Supposing that to be so, how did he receive the wound on the back of the head 1 It would have been impossible for him, after receiving tho fatal wound by falling forward on to the bedstead, to have risen again, and got a second wound on his head by falling back. Mrs. Hamilton, in her evidencs, stated that she heard tho first fall, that she found her husband lying on the floor, that he attempted to get up, and fell again in attempting to rise, but she saw nothing which accounts for the wound on the back of the head.- There is also some of the time unaccounted for. Mr. Davidson, of the York Hotel, saw Hamilton at half-past ten o'clock, whereas he did not come home, according to the evidence of his wife, till between one and two o'clock. These, we believe, are some of the circumstances which caused the investigation.