THE AUCKLAND TRAGEDY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10509, 20 November 1912, Page 4

THE AUCKLAND TRAGEDY.

THE INQUEST. Per Press Association. Auckland, November 19. The inquest on William Henry Whiteside, found dead after : a drunken spree at Buck’s camp, jg. proceeding. The doctor who made a postr m'ortem, said there was no external evidence of recent violence. There was effusion of blood in the lungs as if the man had been struck a blow, but not sufficient to cause death. There was evidence that death was caused by suffocation. It was easy for a drunken man to be suffocated by falling on his face. One witness ’stated that deceased complained to him early in the evening of having been struck by Jack Sheldon with a lump of wood, John Th omas Sheldon, who was cautioned by the Coroner before giving evidence, stated that the row started in the whare between Kennedy, the Whitesides and himself. He left the whare and went to Buck’s shanty and slept there until daylight. He had no personal quarrel with the Whitesides. The jury returned a verdict of death due to suffocation.