A YOUNG WOMAN'S DEATH.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 81, 7 April 1910, Page 3

A YOUNG WOMAN'S DEATH.

DUNEDIX, 3rd April. The inquest concerning the death of Janet M'Coll, who died in the houre of Mrs. Dureton, nurse, at Morningtou, ou 25th March, after having given birth to twins on 16th March, was resumed today. Elizabeth M'Coll sister of the deceased, said when she visited deceased the latter looked very ill, and «orripuun«d of being very tired. Witness suggested that deceased should go to the hospital, but Mrs. Durston said that was unnecessary, a* she had nursed' her thiough the worst of her illness, and she would bo better where she was. Witness al<n suggested calling in a doctor, but both Mrs. Durstou and deceased said that was unnecessary. Deceased did not inform witness that she was coming to town. Witness knew a man named Thomas Carr, who was their neighbour at Waitahuna. She had beard he had come to Dunedin in the same train as deceased, and asked him if such was the cats. fi« denied it at irat, but titerjrprd* taM

hf> had done so. He taid they paTted at the Donedin railway station on 12th March. Carr said deceased was with some people he knew, and wa» all right. He would not give the address, but »atd if witness would go with him on the following Monday he would take her to deceased. On Monday, 31i«t March, witn*f*, her brother, and Carr came to Dunedin in the same train. Witness left her brother and Carr at the Octagon. Carr would not tako them to where deceased was, but said he wonld go himself. Witnc** had not seen Carr nine* coming from Waitahuna. Carr travelled in the guard's van. Dugald. M'Coll, recalled, fait, that when they were in Dunedin Carr said he would go and see if deceased was where he had left her, or if sj>« had cone to North-East Valley to her sister. Witnefs bad not *een Carr since that day. Sarah M'Coll, in the course of her evidence, said deceased was missing for a week. In reply to the foreman of the jury th« Coroner said tho police could not find Carr. Tlie inquest vra* furtner adjourned till Monday. A CLERK CHARGED WITH FORGERY. INVERCARUILL, 6th April. John Archibald Mackay, a clerk in the employ of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, and manager of tho department at Bluff, was today committed for trial on a charge of forging a name on tho wages rheet of the company. The defence was that the practice wa< followed in order that Mackay might recoup himself lor an outlay in tips to aid the speedy transaction of the company's bugines.v It was al*o alleged that at leai=t *on>* of tho other clerks knew that thi* was bring done.