THE CORNISH CASE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 191, 7 May 1908, Page 9

THE CORNISH CASE.

'' ' 'INQUEST AND VERDICT (BY ASSOCIATION.) , ' wo :Duned!n, May 6.; j '. The 'inquest! p?i body ,'of' Mrs; .Cornish, wife of ..tho' licons'ee of,' the Stirling Hotel, ... '.' was continued last, liight.after.tho. telegraph ; -'dillco'. clwsfi'd. ,',;Vlt^Vas ( .'commenced at. 1 p.m.'.. ;. t *' $t'.'3*3s'..this- morn*:, i. t* 'iijgJ ; The Miowiiig additional evidence was . '• given:— f Lily Knox, employed as housemaid at the , Stirling..Hotel, sqid -she. had never known. , Mr. japci'lMr?'. to ..quarrel. , They., s used-\tp : "get', oil. prettjr!:wcllr ; ; Mr'.'"Cornish.'.'"• -V'; . alwars^sebmeH, sober, but deceased seemed. . .liquor. • •,,\V(lliaiii? "Taylor,: .'.barman,., employed for _• soven inontiis'-aV tlie hotel, said during -that time'Mrs.'Cornish' had'seldom been sober in •■■■ ' tho"; evening, and was often; drunk, in the 'Woif-nirife',&'• weft..'''.''. On; the .afternoon of- * ThijrscUy .lasVdeccased was very drunk.Wit- . >' 'licss last saw hor on that "day about. 10 p.m. S - ! : ' To Inspector': "He had killed a pig, he bo- "' '.liovb(l ".on'.' tlie.Wednesday.'. preceding., Mrs.... .'- v ' ( Ci>ri)isli!s death'. J> Mr : ; " Cornish', sat on tho ... pig; lioldijig its forelegs, ■ whilo witness killed ! it:-', Tlie blood spouted .out and Mr.' Cornish ; - , 'got' most 6f it. Mrs. Cornsli was present 1 ; ; during tho process. She 'seemed middling drunk and fell on entering the doorway. V. ; Eviden'co was alsb given .by Constable Jlar- . ' shall; and Detectivo'Hunt; - . ' " Inspector O'Brien referred to tho statement !' liy Cornish' lhat there was a strange man in .' '''the lioiise on Thursday night, and. said ho ' did ndt proposo to ask for an adioiirnmont to' onabie tho' police to got this man, if - tliero wns-a man,'but would leavo it entirely >: to tlie Coroner and jury. Tho jury retired at 'twenty-sevon minutes : to three a.m., and - i;ptarne,d .at, a quarter to four, with tho fol- , lowing .vbrdiet :—- ; fmd that .deceased came to-her doath ;,by ai fall, .and !iii,our opinion the fall would- ;. not iiavo provixl fatal had ,it not hewi for '' the stato of her brain,, brought oil' I by the excessivo use of alcohol.". The fore-' - ; 'fiians added' that thoy did not say,;how or - '4 where"tho;,lonian fell, but sho was in a stata l> 'on* -tho night in'' question : to' fall anywhere had-examinod tho dMr of tho bodroom •' and cojiia.to'the conclusion, that it was jusfc'fa likoly '.as .iiot that/death oither 'i .'.from'; ajall against tho, door oir against tho architrave of the door.^