DEATH OF CURATE CAUSED BY GAS.
EVIDENCE SHOWS HOW TRAGEDY COULD OCCUR Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, July 9. At the inquest touching the death of the Rev John William Foster, curate of St Paul’s Cathedral, who was found dead yesterday in a room with gas turned on, the Coroner found that death was due to accidental asphyxiation. The evidence went to show that Mr Foster had got out of bed, and probably fainted, being subject to such seizures. He probably fell, breaking the gaspipe of a heater. Probably he was overcome by gas before he could recover from the seizure. There was a bruise on the head from a fall and a bruise on the leg, where it had struck the heater. The window was open, and the body was not close to the. heater.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19117, 9 July 1930, Page 9
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