INJURIES END FATALLY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18173, 19 August 1922, Page 11

INJURIES END FATALLY.

— . GRAFTOM BRIDGE SENSATION. i VERDICT OF SUICIDE. , FAREWELL MESSAGE LEFT. » The death occurred at the Auckland i Hospital at about 4 a.m. yesterday of ■ the young man who was picked up in > the gully beneath the Grafton Bridge i shortly beforo midnight. He was identi- • fied as William Nassau Grinlinton, for- . merly of Hawera. I An inquest was held yesterday after- , noon before Mr. J. £. Wilson, S.M. i coroner. Sergeant F. Hammond rcpre- ; sented the police. Horace L. Grinlinton, of Williamson . Avenue, a cousin of deceased, stated that the latter was a furniture salesman. He arrived in Auckland on Wednesday ' morning from Hawera, having left a position there to work for a local firm, i Ho was to have taken up his new occu- , nation to-day. Witness was with deceased, who was staying at a boarding house in Khyber Pass Road, on Wednes- ' day afternoon, when he seemed to be well but pro-occupied. Deceased did not . complain of being ill. He was married and had two children, and had left his family in Hawera. Evidence was given as to the finding of deceased's coat, vest, and cap on the Grafton Bridge at 11.45 p.m. on Thursday by passers-by, and as to the subsequent discovery of the deceased in a semi-conscious condition in the gully be- | neath the bridge. Dr. D. N. W. Murray deposed that he was called to the scene of the occurrence. On examining deceased., he found he was suffering from a compound fracture of the right leg and a large cut on the back of the head. Dr. Joseph Connolly, of the resident medical staff of the hospital, stated that deceased was semi-conscious when ad- | mitted to the institution shortly before 1 a.m. He grew gradually worse, and died about 4 a.m. The injuries described by Dr. Murray, and shock from the fall, caused death. Sergeant Hammond produced an envelope, on which was written in blue pencil: "111-health has sent me mad. Farewell.—Will." This, said witness, had been found in a pocket of deceased's coat. The coroner returned a verdict to the effect that death was due to shock from a compound fracture of the leg and other injuries caused by deceased throwing himself off the Grafton Bridge.