DEATH IN POLICE CELL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20628, 29 July 1930, Page 11

DEATH IN POLICE CELL.

ARREST FOR DRUNKENNESS. SUFFERER FROM PNEUMONIA. [BY TELEGRAPH. —rRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. The inquest concerning the death of Frank Vincent Gully, who died in a police cell while under arrest for drunkenness on July 15, was concluded to-day. The evidence of Dr. E. F. Thomson, pathologist at Christchurch Hospital, who made a post mortem examination, was to the effect that Gully had died of bronchial pneumonia. According to other evidence, Gully had been until July 14 a labourer on the public works at Molukarara. He had been ill at the camp a week before lie ] c ft He was arrested when drunk at ri'rlock in the afternoon, and admitted having had agooddealofliquor, and mado no complaint of feeling un well, either when ho was arrested 01 the cell afterwards. Tho police constable on duty had visited Gully, who was in a cell by himself, at fivo # o'clock. Ho was asleep ancl (bo constablo placed more blankets over him. When tho cell was next visited at seven o'clock Gully was dead. The magistrate found that the cause of death was bronchial pneumonia. He added that all tho police regulations had been complied with, and there was no indication when Gully was arrested that ho was suffering from anything other than drunkenness.