SUDDEN DEATH.
Shortly before eight o'clock this morning Sergeant Geerin received a telephone message that Ellen Maria Gill, aged fifty-five yeats, wife of Samuel Gill, had died suddenly at her residence, Lower Portobello. Deceased enjoyed fairly good health ordinarily, but on Wednesday she suffered from pains in the stomach after eating heartily of green peas, and yesterday she was unable to get up. At 4.45 this morning she seemed to be sleeping naturally. Two hours later her husband went to her bedroom to ask her if she would like a cup of tea. Getting no reply, he found on examination that she was dead. Mr Gill called his two neighbors, Mesdames Geary aud Smith, and then communicated with the police. Deceased had not been attended by a doctor for the last two years, aud on that occasion Dr Cunninghame treated her for indigestion and weakness of the heart. She was an old resident of Portobello and highly respected. Death is supposed to have resulted from natural causes. An inquest will be held to-morrow.
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Evening Star, Issue 9911, 24 January 1896, Page 2
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173SUDDEN DEATH. Evening Star, Issue 9911, 24 January 1896, Page 2
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