
The prince was buried on 12 November at Emahhashini burial ground in Nongoma and is survived by three children, his parents and four sisters.Ĭontent created and supplied by: Nomsie (via Opera The complex source told Daily Sun that, the flatmate was woken up by the securities, while The Prince was dead. When I woke up my gate keys, Laptops, our cellphones and R80 000 was missing. The flat mate also blamed himself for not protecting the Prince like he used to do. “I heard female voices shouting around 1am and at that moment I heard glasses broken,” believed one source.Īnother source said the same. Several sources in the complex told Daily sun that they heard a loud noise inside the flat after midnight. When they got to the flat, I left drowsy and tried to go to my room but I couldn't, I just passed out, when I woke up I found broken bottles all over and I tried to wake the Prince but he was already dead. Prince then settled the bill for the two ladies, then all six woman went to the Prince's flat. The flat mate had disagreed to go with the ladies, by the Prince insisted. The Prince was interested in one of the ladies, and the he suggested that they must go to his flat to continue having fun. The two main befriended two women at a well-liked drinking spot in Hill Street, Ferndale. The police are suspecting that the murderer could be those four woman. The Prince,s flat mate confirmed that on the night before Lethu died there were four women in the flat, there were drinking alcohol. Lethukuthula (50) was found dead his in Graceland flat in Northwold two weeks ago on Friday, 6 November. In fact, it may well have been a case of the flu that advanced into pneumonia before his fateful, tragedy-shortened trip, the author did visit the doctor, complaining of an illness.THE eldest son of ruler benevolence Zwelithini, Lethukuthula Zulu, was allegedly poisoned after a night on the city with four women and his absolutely mate bowed deadly.ĭaily Sun testimonial tape the prince’s death of decease was “poisoned”Īccording to the police report, two used condoms were found, there were broken liquor bottles on the floor and few liquor bottles.The broken bottle showed that there was a fight as well.“His bedroom clothes was ransacked. If the reality of what happened differed from what Benitez read, rabies may be another false theory.

Still, Moran was something of an unreliable narrator, as comparisons of his various accounts reveal quite a few inconsistencies, in part because he wrote them so many years later. Moran also noted that Poe was reluctant to drink water, which Benitez said also matched up with symptoms of rabies. It was in part based on Moran’s accounts of Poe’s time in the hospital, which indicated that Poe’s madness had ebbs and flows, with periods of lucidity in between spikes in feverish mania. Michael Benitez, earned national attention for this theory, which was worked out for a medical conference. In 1996, a researcher and professor at the University of Maryland Medical Center, Dr. Some have speculated that Poe died of rabies, the symptoms of which match his delirious fits and pattern of his decline in the hospital. But there have been theories for nearly as long as Poe has been dead, some of them more credible than others.

So if Poe didn’t succumb to the bottle, what did kill him? Again, we’ll never know - there was no autopsy performed to go back and review and no contemporary accounts remain. There are plenty of other theories about Poe’s death Further, Griswold, who had an up-and-down relationship with Poe, used his position as the executor of his estate to write a cruel, libelous and, unfortunately, authorized biography that suggested the legendary author was an opium addict and drunkard. Snodgrass was a major advocate of the temperance movement and toured the country using Poe as an example of the dangers of booze Snodgrass wrote that when he found Poe at the bar in Baltimore, the author was “utterly stupified with liquor” and could only produce “mere incoherent mutterings” in place of actual speech. After experiencing some close-calls and receiving advice from a doctor, Poe pledged his sobriety and joined the Sons of Temperance just a few months before his death.

The death of his wife from tuberculosis did send him into a long spiral, but he eventually recovered. He was not remembered by all who knew him as a heavy drinker - it seemed that he would go long stretches without taking a sip - but when he did imbibe, it did not take much for him to fall into a stupor. Poe was, by many accounts, a lightweight when it came to liquor. Photo: Authenticated News/Getty Images Character assassination shaped Poe’s reputation following his death
