SUDDEN DEATH.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3152, 6 September 1892, Page 2

SUDDEN DEATH.

The inhabitants of Cambridge were somewhat startled an Sunday morning to hear the bells of St. Andrew's Church giying out a muffled peal; a sure indication that some illustrious person or fellow townsmen had departed this life. The sad tidings proclaimed by the bells proved only too true, for Mr John Lowe, the well known railway guard, had passed away in the early hours of the morning in a most sudden and unexpected manner.

(BY TELEGRAPH.— OWN COBUKSPONDENT). Cambhidoe, Last Night. An inquest was held at deceased's house at II a.m. to-day, before Mr W. N. Searancke, coroner, and a jury of six, of which iVlr Arthur Bach was foreman, i> rom the evidence given by deceased's daughter, Dr. Waddington, and other witnesses, the jary returned a verdict that the death was the result of apoplexy. Deceased was 46 years of age, and hb Das been employed on the Auckland section of the railway about 12 years. On Saturday he came up with the train as usual, and appeared in the best of health. He spent the evening attending to his fowls—of which he was a (treat fancier and had prize birds— and working in his garden. He went to bed shortly after 10 p.m., and at 1.15 a.m. on Sunday morning his daughter heard him call. She went into his room and he tola her he had found himself out oi bed with his head lying against the table. Hβ asked her to give him a drink, and she gave him a little whisky and water, after which she want to bed a?ain. Soon afterwards she heard him struggling and ehe ran into his room again, but he was unconscious, Dr. Waddington was summoned but by the time he arrived deceased had expired. The funeral will take place to-morrow after the arrival of the train, many of the railway employees having expressed a wish to carry their old comrade to the grave.