DEATH AT TAURANGA.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18927, 22 April 1933, Page 5

DEATH AT TAURANGA.

FEW DAYS AFTER MARRIAGE. EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST. STRONG MENTAL STRAIN. TAURANGA, Friday. The Inquest concerning the death of Ernest 'Matthews Sommerville, who died at Tauranga on February 7, was resumed this morning. The inquest had been opened on February 8, and after the evidence of Dr. W. Watt and Dr. T. Stuart had been heard it was adjourned pending the result cf pathological examination of certain organs. Dr. Watt, -continuing his evidence, said he had attended deceased. After Sommerville died witness was quite prepared to give a certificate of death. The certificate would have been heart failure following on an uraemic condition. , Janet Rennie Millar Sommerville stated that she married deceased in Auckland on January 31. Prior to her marriage she was engaged in Tauranga as a nurse. After they were rqarried her husband asked her if he could leave her until 9 o’clock that ■evening and be would meet her at an hotel. They met as arranged. After witness got her husband to his room she had a very' bad time with him. He wanted to get out of the hotel, and was suffering under strong mental strain. She asked 'him why he wanted to leave and he told her that that afternoon he had attended confessional and was instructed by the priest that bo could not _ live where witness was. lie told witness that in the eyes of his Church his marriage to her was a bigamous alliance. This was causing him considerable mental anxiety. Detective-Sergeant Thompson, ol Hamilton, produced a report from the Government analyst, Auckland. Witness -stated that he had carried out Investigation into the circumstances of the death of Sommerville, and had failed to' discover anything other than that deceased died from natural causes.

Tlie coroner’s verdict was that the cause of death was heart failure, accentuated by uraeimlc conditions.