Strange conduct after fall.

Mr. J. Kenyon Parker., Sheffield district coroner, recorded an “open verdict” at an inquest at Wath town hall on Monday, on Walter Moore (44), painter and decorator. Of 4, Woodlands Road, Wath, whose body was recovered from the canal at Brampton on Saturday.

Edith Annie Moore, widow gave evidence of identification and stated that she last saw her husband alive on March 24th. Before that he had been ill for some weeks and had been attended by a doctor. He had a fall downstairs at home in January and had complained of headaches since then.

In answer to the coroner witness said that her husband had sustained a cut on the head which had bled. For some weeks he was an invalid and the fall seem to have made him low spirited. Up to dinnertime on Friday, March 24th, her husband had acted clearly and had gone about the house muttering to himself and leaving the windows open seen that he was stifled and could not read. When he went out in the evening he said he was going for a walk and would not be long, and that was the last time she saw him alive. She reported her husband as missing the following day.