"DEATH AT YOUR DOOR."

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 128, 2 June 1927, Page 11

"DEATH AT YOUR DOOR."

lORONER BLAMES YOUNG MAN

fIRL WHO DIED IN BOARDING

HOUSE.

m t "A SAD CASE."

/The death of this young girl is at pour door, Glover," said Mr. F. K. Hunt, B.M-, at the inquest on Doris Jane Reid, aged 23, who was found dead in t boarding house in Newmarket on May 12. An open verdict was gfccu.

"My daughter had lived at home until just before her death, when we had a bit of a tiff," said the father, Charles Henry Reid. "She went away and we iid not know where she had gone. The iraly man that I knew she had been joing out with was Hugh Glover. It was he who told me of her death on May 12. I asked my daughter if she Fas in a certain condition, and she lenied it. To my knowledge, she has. aever been out with any other man but jlover during the last four or five nonths. "A few days before the girl left home, 31oVer's wife came to my house, and ihat was the first time that I knew he ras a married man. I told my daughter ihat fihe must drop Glover. That was Jie cause of the tiff." Mr. Hunt (to Glover): Oh, that's what Ton did, eh? And you're a married

' Glover: No. I had nothing to do with her like that. She was only a friend. ' Mr. Hunt: You've no right to be friendly with a single girl if you're a parried man.

j "Girl Was 111 All Day. , * I Hazel Anne Batchelor, u boardingJiouse keeper, said that the dead girl fcame to her house on May 3, giving her lame as '"'Miss Wilson." She did not lay what she did or where she came from, nit, in conversation with her, witness ras led to believe that she came from lamilton. The girl went out a good leal, and witness had seen her drinking >randy and gin. The day the girl died, ritnese saw her quite often and she was II all day, but she did not ask for » nedical attention. Witness gave her a ose of medicine which she had got for ier. . Witness saw her after five o'clock, ind when she went in again at a quarter net six the girl was lying across her jed. She was dead. i "I had been out with her on an average about three times a week," said ffugh Glover, who is a taxi driver and a married man. "I had known her since ffanaury 10 last. During the time 1 pnew her, I did not know of her being put with any other man. The girl did pot tell me of her condition. She told pie to come along to the boarding-house •n the night she died and ask for 'Miss JVilson.'"

i Mr. Hunt: What were you doing out kith a single girl when you have got a pife at home, anyway? You said you flid not have anything to do with her. Glover: No, I did not—she was only a friend.

Mr. Hunt: I don't believe you, and there is not a man in Xew Zealand that pould believe you.

I The Medical Evidence. ' Br. D.;N. W, Murray said that death *as caused by general peritonitis following on a septic abortion of three months' pregnacy brought on by external interference.

"This is a sad case," said Mr. Hunt. (Til return an open verdict—the same j,s the medical evidence. That will leave things so that you can make further Inquiries,'* he said to Senior-Detective Pammond. ■ ■ » "Well, the death of this young girl is (it your door," he said to Glover.