INQUESTS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 126, 24 November 1925, Page 9

INQUESTS

An inquest was held yesterday afternoon by the Coroner (Mr. E. Page, S.M.) on Annie Victoria Miller, aged 26, whose body was found floating in the harbour near Ngahauranea on the morning of 18th November. John Miller, a tram conductor and a brother of the deceased, gave evidence of having identified the body at the Morgue. Deceased was a domestic and a single wo? man, he said, and when he last saw her on the night, of 17th ■ November, appeared to be'in normal health. She had been subject to depression, and had been worried about trouble among her relatives in Ireland. A verdict that deceased committed suicide by drowning while in a depressed state of mind was returned. The circumstances surrounding the death of Maud Beatrice Crowle, aged 25, who was found dead in bed at 3, i Bolton street, on 12th November, were the subject of an inquest held yesterday afternoon before the Coroner (Mr. E. Page, S.M.). Margaret Watts Lewis, a "married woman, said that deceased, who was her niece, came to live with her on 7th November. She was broken-hearted and always crying, which was due, in witness's opinion, to the fact that deceased had been engaged to marry but the engagement was broken off. On the morning of 12th November witness found deceased dead in bed., Mark Herbert Davis, a qualified chemist, said that on 11th November deceased came into his shop and asked for some poison for her cat. Witness told her that he was unable to give her the poison, and asked her to bring the cat to him. Deceased explained that the animal was sick, and finally witness sold her the poison. She_ appeared to bo in perfectly normal'spirits. Mr.. H. H. Cornish (for witness): "It is hot' an unusual thing for people to ask for. poison for such a purpose, is it?"—"lt is quito a usual request." Dr. P; Pi Lynch, pathologist at Wellington Hospital, said that he had conducted a post-mortem examination of the body, and was of opinion that death was due;to poisoning. The verdict was that deceased committed suicide by poisoning on 12th November while in a despondent state of mind.