THE WELLINGTON SUICIDE.

Press, Volume XLIV, Issue 6094, 9 November 1887, Page 5

THE WELLINGTON SUICIDE.

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WELLINGTON, November 8. At the adjourned inquest on the body of Mrs Martin, the mt-dieal evidence proved - there was every indication of irritant poisoning, and that traces of arsenic, which is one of the principal ingredients of "rough on rats," were found in the stomach. The Coroner, in summing up, said the callousness and want of feeling oa the part of the husband—there was au excuse for the daughter, because of her youth—was something appalling to him, and he could not get oxer it at all. That the daughter should have told her father that her mother had taken poison, and that he should have taken no steps to counteract the effects was very extraordinary. As the jury knew the busband could not be made leyally responsible for the death of his wife, but so far as he (the Coroner) could see he was morally guilty. The husband said that lie did not recollect his daughter telling him that deceased had taken poison, and the only explanation why he could not recollect was that he was drunk at the time. The jury returned a verdict— •'That the deceased committed huicide while temporarily insane." A rider was added censuring the conduct of the husband of the deceased.