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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 52, 25 November 1907, Page 2

. Sophia Tarris, the wife of a Scurithorpo, Lincolnshire, ironworker, cut h6r throat, believing that a spell had been cast over Her house, and that something dreadful was about ti happen. At the conclusion of his ovidonco at' the inquest hold at Gisborne recently on tho.body of tho lato Mr. D.'O'Sullivan, Dr. Morrison asked the Coroner to point out to tho autbo-> ritics that tho fee for a posl-mortom was not adequate. He would not undertako tho liko again for £10 10s. Ho understood tliet hq had to come to the resftuo in tho luster, other doctors refusing to undertake t!io task. Sergeant Williams said that two other dootors had refused to conduct tho post-morWm. Tho Acting-Coroner said that tho doctor bad the sympathy of tho jury and himself in Ui« matter, and ho would undortako that row©, sentations were made in tho proper quarafc