SENILE DECAY AT EIGHT

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 428, 22 July 1913, Page 2

SENILE DECAY AT EIGHT

Remarkable evidence concerning the death of Stanley Victor Grove, & boy of eight, was given at a Hackney inquest. A doctor stated that the postmortem examination revealed conditions that might be described as excessively premature senile decay. He found disease of the valves of the heart, congestion of the brain, and considerable hemorrhage. — The father of deceased stated that he took' the boy for a Avalk to Lea Bridge, and while near the river side the boy ran to tho edge of the river with a piece of stick and fell into the water. Witness rescued him, and he appeared none tho. worse for the immersion. Later the boy became ill and died. — Medical evidence showed that death was due to apoplexy.— The Coroner: Do you think that the immersion -on- the previous Saturday had anything to do with death ?— Doctor : I do not. think so. Sunstroke might possibly* have had something to do with it.— The Coroner : That is rather complimentary to the weather we have had. recently. In an ordinary case of sunstroke one does not get bleeding of thof, brain?— No. — The jury returned a verdict of " Natural death." V