SUDDEN DEATH.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 144342, 5 March 1914, Page 3

SUDDEN DEATH.

MISAPPREHENSION REMOVED, PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION. DUNEDIN, March 4The adjourned inquest on the Mrs, Doocey, who died somewhat suddenly on Saturday evening, was continued to-day. It was supposed that death* was due to a fall sustained result of deceased being bumped by # 3 drunken man in the street about midday on Saturday. . Kathleen Doocey, aged 12 years, saw she was walking ahead of her mother. Passing the Grand Hotel, she saw < man swaying in his walk, and immedv ately afterwards she heard a faU. Oi turning round she saw her mother OB the ground, and she thought the mai must have bumped her. Soon after* wards her mother took ill. Alexander Gunn, commercial traveller, who saw deceased fall, said she seemed to catch her head on & grating and fall on her side. Witness saw no drunken man. Similar evidence was given by Edward Levi do. Dr. Roberts, hon. pathologist at the hospital, said ho made a post-mortem examination. There were no external marks. Ho regarded it as a cose or spontaneous hemorrhage, and thought the fall had nothing to do with it. The case was hopeless from the start. A verdict- was returned of death from natural causes, namely, Intorcorooral pressure due to cerebral hemorrhage.