GAS-POISONING CASE.
INQUEST AT ONEHUNGA. An inquest concerning the death of George Gibson Webb, who was found dead in bed at his residence in Forbes Street, Gnehunga, on Monday morning, was held yesterday before Mr. D. A. Sutherland, district coroner.
Mrs. Webb said her husband had been ill, and for the past three weeks had been unable to follow his occupation as a joiner. He retired to bed at 10 o'clock on Sunday evening, occupying a separata room. She turned off the. gas meter, but during the night heard deceased moving about. When she got up in the morning she noticed a smell of gas and found that her husband's door was locked. She had to get a neighbour to open it. Her husband was found dead in bed, with the gas turned on and a gas tube near his head. He had no financial worries, but had suSered very much from insomnia.
' The -coroner returned a verdict that deceased died from coal gas poisoning, self-administered while in a depressed state of mind due to ill-health.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19391, 28 July 1926, Page 14
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