CORONER INVESTIGATES DEATH AT BRIGHTON.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19154, 21 August 1930, Page 9

CORONER INVESTIGATES DEATH AT BRIGHTON.

After being missing from his home for several day's, a man named Sidney Grantly Norton, aged thirty-nine years, was found dead in a gas-filled room in an unoccupied house at New Brighton on August 9. The circumstances surrounding his death were investigated to-day before Mr E. D. Mosley, Coroner. Sergeant Lcckie represented the police. Mr Amodeo appeared for the relatives. Dr C. H. Gould said that Norton had been a patient of his on and off for about eight years. lie was ordinarily a strong, healthy man. He had had his teeth drawn recently. Witness last saw Norton about six days before his death. lie had lost several stone in weight, and his face was thin and drawn. Norton suspected tuberculosis-, and this was worrying him. His wife had died several months before of the disease. lie had only one leg, and found it difficult to get anything to do. He was, at the time, rather depressed, and had said in a joking sort of way that he would be “better out of it.” He was in a very poor state of health at the time of his death. (Continued in Stop Press.)