DEATH OF A LADY IN A BATH.

Evening Star, Issue 5589, 5 February 1881, Page 4

DEATH OF A LADY IN A BATH.

On Sunday morning. November 7, the body of Miss Annie Cook, d »ughter of Mr Thomas Cook, the well-known excursionist, was round in a bath at Mr Cjok's residence, near Leicester. Miss Cook bade her father and mother good-night on Saturday, aad weatas usual to the bath-rooijr Oa getting » oa Sunday morning.yEr Cook wm astonished that her bed roods had sat beea occupied. With assistance he broke open the bath-room door, and was shocked to find her body floating ks tae lath. Death was attributed to a fit. v Au inquest was held at Theraeroft House; near Leicester, on Monday. The evidence showed that a aew patent gas waterheater had been fitted to the bith, and when the aco'dest occurred it was only the third time it had been used. Oa the prevh us •»- oasion when she used the bath she complained to an intimate friead that whea ia the bath she lost consciousness, and she hardly kaew how eke recovered herself, as she felt Bhe wai on the very verge of death. She, however, had n -t complained of this to her father or mother. Oj Saturday night Mr Cock aotioed an exceedingly disagreeable smell after the apparatus had beea lighted, and the smell he compart d to that ef bilge water in a steamship. No more was thought of the matter, and Miss Cook was found dead in the bath next morning. Dr Henry Lankeater, who was called, s»id he found evidences which showed that there had been an exceedingly offensive < ffluvium from the gis apparatus, indue ng syncope, and drownicg supervened. The room was fitted with eltctrio bells, so that had the deaeased had power she could have called assistance at once. The jury returned a verdiot of "Death by drowning, which was brought about as statid in the medical tvidence."