A YOUNG WOMAN'S DEATH.
PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES,
DYING DEPOSITIONS TAKEN.
A death of a young woman under Very peculiar circumstances took j)lace on Saturday nig-ht in a private nursing- hospital in Hepburn Street, conducted by Miss Ogilvie. The young woman's name was Susan Harriet Campbell McCallum, and she was 24 years of age. Her father is Captain McCallum, harbour-master at Port Chalmers, and the daughter had been in Auckland for some time past. It is stated that she was at service in a house in the vicinity of Wellington St. On Wednesday last she was admitted to the Hepburn St. private hospital in a serious condition on the recommendation of Dr. A. H. Orpen. Dr. Orpen is also stated to have attended the girl after her admission.
On Christmas Eve she became worse, and feeling- that she was near death, she desired to make a dying' declaration. The authorities of the institution, after some trouble in finding a .T.P. to attend, got a Justice of the Peace, Mr A. J. Allom, to come to take the young woman's death-bed statement. Mr Allom took the girl's statement down in writing, and had it signed by her early on Saturday morning. She died on Saturday eveningl, having- expressed a -wish, that her body should be sent to Port Chalmers foi; burial.
The body was removed on Saturday night to the premises of Mr C. Little, undertaker, Hobson St., and was there embalmed. On Sunday Mr Little endeavoured, to obtain the death certificate prior to shipping the body South, but in consequence of the young- woman's dying" statement, the police interfered, and prohibited the interment or removal of the body pending1 a Coroner's inquest.
The dying- statement of the youngwoman has been forwarded to the district coroner, who will hold an inquest into the circumstances at ten o'clock to-morrow morning at Mr Little's premises, Hobson St.
The deceased woman was short in stature and dark in complexion.
One of her brothers is engineer on the Union Co.?s steamer Waihora.
A post-mortem examination of the body was to have been made this afternoon.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 300, 28 December 1897, Page 5
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348A YOUNG WOMAN'S DEATH. Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 300, 28 December 1897, Page 5
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