WOMAN TAKES POISON.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 24, 29 January 1926, Page 7

WOMAN TAKES POISON.

DIES IM HOSPITAL SUICIDE WHILE TEMPORARILY INSANE. After asking her husband for stout iat 4.."i> o'clock yesterday afternoon, and ! having been refused this beverage, Mrs. I Katherine Frances Met uIU-h i .15) .wife lof Arthur tUuurt Mo( ulloch, licensee of I the Hobson Hotel, left nor bedroom at J 5.10 and informed her hu-l-and, wlio was I then in the liiir. that she had takon j ami him to send for Uγ. j Milsoni. Mr. MeCulloeh rushed across to a i t'lieniisfs shop and procured an emetic. i Dr. l'e/.aro was qliu-kly in attendance. 'and ordered tin , unf. ruinate woman to ! the hospital, where she died at 0.20 p.m. i The inquest wm hold at noon to-day ■at the morgue. Ur <i. <i. TaHtnt. hnn«.« physician at J tbo Auckland Hospital, deposed that I deceased was admitted at H.S p.m. She 1 was then in rt of I'limii n> a result of poisoning. Death ensued at 6.20. I Witness assisted Dr. Gilmour to perform a po*t mortem examination of the body J this morning. There were no marks of [violence on the body. Death was caused by a certain poison. Deceaseds husband said that his wife was in her bedroom at 4.30 yesterday I afternoon -when -he asked him to get her some -tout. He refused, whereupon she I said, -Well. I want it." Witness replied '"YOU eannoi have it." He then went downstairs to the liar. At 5.11) deceased came to the War and told witness that j she had taken prison and asked him to i send for Dr. Milsoni. At first hp did I not believe hi* wife and took h?r to ' the top of the stair-. She looked [ bright and commenced to smoke a eigar- [ ette. When she persisted in telling I him that sda , had takon poison witness rushed across to a chemist's shop and. procured an emetic, while the chemist, I telephoned for Dr. Pez.aro, who arrived I shortly afterwards. Witness said that .deceased was inclined to liquor. She ' eeemed quite well yesterday and did not j threaten to take her life yesterday. She had previously -aid that "I will kill myself if I can't stop this," meaning i drink. Deceased had been operated on three or tour time*. They had been married six year-; next month, and had always lived happily together. There had. not been any differences, excepting: when deceased took liquor. Witness and hie wife had heen planning a trip to the ! Dunedin Exhibition, and were to have left next . lonth. The Coroner. Mr. J. W. Poynton, j returned a verdict that deceased commitI tod suicide by taking poison while in a fit of temporary insanity. I■ „ •