CHOKED TO DEATH
MAN IN RESTAURANT WELLINGTON INQUEST. Wellington. July 31. An inquest, on a man who choked to death in a Wellington restaurant was held before Mr. W. G. Mellish, coroner, yesterday. He was Walter Ladner, cabinetmater, aged 62, single. Evidence showed that Ladner ordered sleak and kidney stew. A few minutes later a waitress noticed that he was coughing and appeared distressed, and was sitting with his head resting against the wall. She rang up the Free Ambulance, but the driver, when he arrived at 5.15, found that Ladner was dead.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 179, 1 August 1941, Page 7
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