SUDDEN DEATH.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 28, 10 March 1914, Page 8

SUDDEN DEATH.

Mr T. A. B. Bailey, coroner, held an inquest yesterday into the circumstances touching the death of Henry Arthur Henderson, aged 21, who died suddenly at Halkett on Sunday morning. In evidence given it was'stated that deceased drove home with a brother from an entertainment at 12.30 a.m. on Sunday, and when the brother got out to open a gate deceased drove on to the stable. Another brother in the house, hearing a noise, went out to investigate, and found deceased lying in front of a wheel of the trap. He was' taken inside, but died almost immediately. Dr Simpson, who had made a postmortem examination, stated that death *> , was due to heart failure. The coroner returned a verdict in accordance with medical evidence.