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Evening Star, Issue 10213, 15 January 1897, Page 2

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. : !.iwjiw. uMfm Mtoir ihdafo?|- .mphtUa;: m» . found. tHSWMid at of taking pwl wjtfcim»*Uitiay, Wid »*• w to thejtarfooe and pp removed to the St. tlmMs** numerous which i| a 'gopd de*l disfigured, Hi* mispd chat In itedawnward ooursb itfeH straight into tlfo ocean, and death was therefore doe to drowning,' and that afterwords the waives wqshod « info the position in .which it wuls subsequently discovered. Withthe ueeption of her hat, which wan found do Hondiy, deoerted was dressed sis whenlaSt seen on^onday. 1 An foqnees was. held nt the Hotel Metropole, St. Clair; this afternoon, before Mr Carew, B.H*< •»«« fary of six, of which Mr Goetwin was chosen foreman. The body hiving boro yfoirad, .<• Hugh M’Corkintfole, npws agent, residing at Duncan strict, wrath Bunedio, deposed that the body mewo£ Ur the forywas tost of his late daughter, Jane Lindsay HKknkihdale, was., bomin Glasgow, and bed beer in Mew <ZeSland imoe 1874 "DseWssed was ar tailorass and was twentythree yearn of sie. missed from her home bn Sunday, Ifitn insb, about noesa. ’She Bad been d««poqdent fat the past four or five wtojks, beug seenriagty dissatisfied 1 with -her smrebhdipgk and bad been ailing for some titna bdort thsity being oecasionally nnwe|l in the ttondiig and better at She mid ndver' previmvdy bean despondent. Beoessed.kho had beds able to attend tohmr dntfotright npth tite holfdays. bad been attended to on. several Occasions by Dr Brown. Ajter the holfdsyi did not go back to her work, «S Dr Brothi ordered her to Naseby for a qkenge. She othie back from Naaeby on SMurdVy, the 9pf r m>d said she was a liOUe betttt'for Jjta On Sondby morning deceaned asid w? was going to see n oompanhm who Uv«f heroaa the road, and foft tfie tii o’clock. When witness apd his famfiy qine home from eharsh and tbalt detf aled had not coine homo be sOnt' acron to‘tFk* ? Wace where she had said she was going to rak her to come homo for dinner. Found ins bad never bean there, 1 and, knowing the despondent state deceased had- been in, witness took a tram to St. Clair, as that was her favorite plaes for walking. Saw nothing of deceased, and could hear nothing of her. In tha evening witness heard that bis daughter had-been seen in the morning walking in Cargill road in the direction of St. Clair. Immediately on returning from St Clair ia the afternoon witness went to the police station and gave a full description of deceased. A strict seareh was maintained, and on Monday, about twelve o’clock, heard that an umbrella had been picked up round the cliffs, which he identified as belonging to bis daughter. On Tuesday a hat was found on the cliffs near where the body was sadd to have been seen floating, and that witness recognised an also having belonged to bis daughter. Inst night heard that a body bad been found, and coming to St. Clair recognised the body as that of bis daughter. By Sergeant Brown: Deceased bad several timef spoken about herself as being useless. This was quite foreign to her nature, as sh» was .usually very bright. To Mr (jiarew: About, a week or so before going to the country deceased bad attempted to commit suicide taking matches. She was discovered by one of the matches going off. She promised never again to attempt anything of the kind. ' By Sergeant Brown: Deceased’s mother had on one occasion given her ebforodyne. It Was not kept in the home, bat he knew that a bottle of it had been in deceased’s work-basket after she was missed. Believed that deoeasedJisd used chlorodyne for toothache. The work basket was quite open, anianything in it erold not be said to be hid. On the evening previous to her disappearance deceased appeared to be in good spirits. Dr Brown deposed that the deoaaaed bad oame to his house to consult him op several occasions, the. first being on December 15 last. ; When be first saw deceased she com* plained of uncomfortable feelings in bet head and inability to collect her thoughts. She gave witniM the opinion of bring a very intetogent She said she baa passea thrnagh a very severe attack of inflnemea about foot yuan ago, end again recently through another ettack that was not so severe. Deceased showed ho rign* of organic disease, and. head, no derangement of th* bodjly functions. 'He came (6 the conclusion that deceased was suffering from rim alter effect* of influenza on the nervous system. At that time deceased was despondent aboat herself, and off subsequent occasions when he saw - her the despondency was much more marked.! When first he saw deceased he advised her to take a rest from work, and , subsequently when she began to speak abont her life being useless and a waste witness recommended her friends to take her away for a change to some other part of tbe country, and • advised her sister, who was ■ going with her, not to let her out of her right. Deceased had never made any special reference to committing snicide. Witness had seen the body, but could not recognise it The skull was broken and the features shattered. The injuries might have been caused either by coming into contact with the rocks whilst falling or afterwards by tbe dashing of the waves against tbe rocks. He conla not my whether deceased died by drowning or not.

By w Juryman: Witness bad seen several cases of despondency come on as the result of attacks of influenza. It was not common for snch effects to result from influenza, bnt instances bad come under his notice. So far as witness knew theft was nothing to warrant him in recommending any other than domestic treatment.

William Henry Orimmelt, plasterer, Gargill road, deposed that be knew deceased by sight, and saw her on Sunday when in Forbury.road about 10.30 coming towards St Glair. Deceased turned the comer of Albert street and went in the direction of the bosh. She was alone. Witness did not know .deceased to speak to, and noticed nothing peculiar about her. The direction in which deceased was going was a less public way of getting to the baths or cliffs than brooming round past the hotel, Thomas llkrtin, warehouseman, of Baslyn, deposed that be was on the cliffi last Sunday morning with Mr Austin. Saw an object in tbs water which he took to be a body. It was just’ below the highest part of the tuff, and - was very indistinct, but appeared to be clothed. It was not possible -to get near the object from where witness was without going two or three miks round to get to the shore. Went down to the baths and got the toan of a pair of gl—mi and went hack. The object had, however, drifted So far ont to sea in the my»ptifan» that it was barely Witness and Anstin were not at aU satisfied that what they bad seen was a body. Witness reported what he had seen to Constable Dale. By Sergeant fyown; It was abqut U. 30 that witness ansi* what he took to be the body in the water. Had anyone got down to-the sea-aide they would have been nnable to do anything witbqpt a boat. When on theirwaydown ip thp baths for the gjsssns they Ibund, an nybndfr on the bill aide { but did not tohe.it ***7- From whew the umbrella was a pmm could not hare dropped into the under, bat could bare rolled dpwn thecUff into the water. , To a Juryman: Us water at the time was quite es6oth, heat U* available) Wfiuid'baye hem,** could bare been easily used. Gomelins Wysom. beQ»a*aafcer, depneed that hejwas teethe body mend the seiteFflaf With tr~~ young - men They bad been

•Uffquite him movingaa artnabout. That mi at S. 30 pan.. Witness eaiksd'the •tteßtteo qf hia coinpepiuM to iWwia Wb» tk« teeakqrs reoeffea hb oould tebtlSe whole )»4j jammed, betwisentbarocna, Onb bFbu Hobba and witn«e« Mfco3e<led in geltihß the body fsom between riM-'tocket* and/or* riad it up abput tweatyyards frpm tin edm of, the .water, Help Was Obtained, and <he body conveyed to thp top ofvths cliffs and brought to the betel. From t|he position of the body when found,-, it moat have been washed infrooa the sea. It could nob have dropped there; because there was a rock over the body. ,To the Foreman; Hie body was almost directly under the place where the umbrella wAs found. Thomas Martin (recalled) said that when he was going away the' object that Was taken for a body was coming towards the shore agaifa, evidently being brought in by ah tinder-current. - ' - The jury brohgbt in a verdict of 11 Found dead.” .. . -