REMARKABLE FORTITUDE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22610, 29 June 1935, Page 18

REMARKABLE FORTITUDE

MAN WITH FRACTURED SKULL How a man was stated to have refused to see a doctor after he had fallen and fractured his skull was told at the Paddirigton inquest on Jesse James Walker, aged 63, clerk and cashier at Middle Temple, London, who died in hospital as the resxilt of the fall. It was stated that Walker was in the habit of leaving a shopping bag in the cook's room at the Temple. On the day of the accident he found that the door was locked and attempted to climb over a partition. He apparently fell and , struck his head, but at a second attempt was successful. Then he appeared to have put one chair on top of another in order to climb back, but evidently became giddy, and finally opened the door with t penknife. '■."■"■'' The head porter heard moaning noises, and found Walker bathing his head in the wash basin of his own room. He insisted that he was all right and refused to have a doctor or a taxicab. The porters watched him walk down Middle Temple lane, and saw get across the Embankment, but he then fell, and was picked up by a policeman. _lt was later found that his skull was fractured. On behalf of the Benchers of the Middle Temple, the Hon. Eweh Montagu expressed deep sympathy with the relatives of the dead man, who, he declared was an old and trusted servant. The coroner, Mr Ingleby Oddie, recorded a verdict of accidental death.