KILLED BY EXPLOSION
VERDICT AFTER INQUEST [Per Press Association) HO'ZITIKA, Oct. 8. At an adjourned inquest concluded this afternoon a verdict was returned that Robert Thompson Gallon was killed by an explosion of gelignite on Sept. 28 at the mouth of No. io tunnel of Humphrey’s race works, apparently accidentally, but the actual cause of the explosion has not been disclosed. BODY IN LIFT WELL FINDING OF ACCIDENTAL DEATH COMMENT BY CORONER [P«r Pre bs Association] AUCKLAND, Oct. 8. “That the lift was defective on the day of the accident I have no doubt,” said Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., coroner, in returning a verdict of accidental death at the inquest into the death of Harold Francis Churton, aged 63. of Mount Eden, whose body was found at the bottom of a lift well in Cooke’s Building, Queen Street, on September 17. Much evidence was given concerning the operation of an automatic lift in the building, but the coroner said the explanations of witnesses did not satisfy him. The police evidence was that bloodstains and other marks in the lift well were consistent with the falling of a body which must have dropped from above the third floor.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 239, 9 October 1936, Page 7
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