MAORI TREATED FOR HEAD INJURIES THEN FALLS OVER SLOPE, DIES

Wanganui Chronicle, 11 September 1950, Page 4

MAORI TREATED FOR HEAD INJURIES THEN FALLS OVER SLOPE, DIES

AUCKLAND, Last Night (PA) Half an hour after he had left the casualty department of the Auckland Hospital, where he had been taken following a fall dow n a flight of stairs, a Maori labourer was found lying in a pool of blood at 8 o'clock on Saturday night on the roadway in the Dornai.at the back of the hospital. He was suffering from head injuries fron. which he died at midnight. He was William Frederick Kahul, aged about 54, who had lived at an hostel in the City. The circumstances of the death were unusual, but detectives are now satisfied that there was no question of foul play. Kahui had been taken to the casualty department of the hospital by an ambulance at 7.30 p.m. following a fall in the city. Medical examination did not reveal that he was suffer ing from any injuries and arrangements wer e made to call a taxi for him and his companion. After waiting for a time Kahui said he would walk He then went off on his own. Indications are that after Kahui left his companion he walked Into the Domain and along a grass slope behind the hospital. A drop of a little more than two feet over a stonewall separates the slope from the roadway on which he was found. It is assumed that in the dark Kahui failed to see the drop and fell on the road.