A STRANGE DEATH

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 92, 21 April 1925, Page 7

A STRANGE DEATH

SCIENTISTS FAIL TO FIND A

REASON.

(BY TEI.BGIUI'H.— "BESS ASSOCIATION.)

CHRISTCHURCH, 20th April. The origin of the- cause of death of Ellen hva Header has baffled the pathologist at Chmtehurcß Hospital and the Government Analyst. She was a married women, aged 22 years, and she. died suddenly in her bedroom in the house of her mother-in-law in Sydenham on Mi April. They told the District Coroner, Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M.. who conducted the investigation, that the origin of the cause was unknown to them, | though they had both examined portions of the body. After I made an examination I was unable to _ assign any cause for her death, said Dr Pearson, pathologist at the- hospital. "There were many minor causes, but none of them seemed sufficient. He made a miscroscopic.il examination but that had revealed nothing beyond what he could see with his naked eye. The general appearance indicated an asphyxial type of death, and although he had not suspected it he had been on the look-out for alkaloid poisoni»S, but he had found no trace of it Ihe cause of death, he thought, was asphyxia of unknown origin, associated witn status lymphatious in a moderate degree. Evidence was given by A. A. BickertW , &o, veV™ ellfc Analyst, who said that lie had been given portion of the brain and the contents of the stomach by the police, and had made a chemical examination of them, but he could find nothing- to account for the woman's