THREE WEEKS A BRIDE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14906, 3 February 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

THREE WEEKS A BRIDE.

SAD FATE OF ARMY SURGEON A mum: of three weeks made a pathetic figure, at an inquest on the body of Sur-geon-Major William Hendy Philip Lewis, aged 62, formerly with the R.A.M.C., who was found dead at his residence in Pimlico. "We had been married less than three weeks." the widow told the coroner, and she went on to relate how, after «lie had left home in the morning to pay a visit to Birmingham, she found her husband in the evening asleep on the sofa. He was breathing heavily, and she thought he was intoxicated, but she had never seen him in that condition before. She watched him, but. Nt seven o'clock next morning she noticed that he was not snoring, and then found he was dead. ,

The landlady said that Major Lewis returned at about half-past seven on Friday evening, December loth, and fell down, knocking over ati umbrella stand. He was carried to the sitting-room. Colonel David Francis Lewi?, of Park Hall, Salford Priors, Eversham, said that Major Lewis, who was his brother, had served most of his time in the army in Egypt. He had been practically a total abstainer for fifteen years, he "had been taking a couple of glasses of champagne during dinner. He had a small dispensary practice at Battersea, which was undoubtedly a disappointment to him. He had no pension, but he was not short of money. Dr. Freyberger, the pathologist, said he considered deatli was due to alcoholic poisoning, and he. thought Major Lewis must have been in the. habit of taking alcoholic liquor—probably secretly. The jury returned a verdict* of "Death from alcoholic poisoning.