DEATH OF MRS CORNISH.

Evening Star, Issue 12943, 5 May 1908, Page 5

DEATH OF MRS CORNISH.

As to the death Inf Mrs Cnrnieh, wife of Mr Richard Cornish, the licensee of the Stirling Hotel, it is reported in tlie ‘Free Press’ that on Friday last Mrs Cornish rose before her husband, and when lie came out of the bedroom he found her body lying in the passage of the hotel. She was quite dead. Dr Burnett, of Balclntha, was sent for, but under the circumstances ho could not give a certificate of death.. Constable Marshall, of Knitansrata. was communicated with in the afternoon. The deceased was thirty-three' years of a up. a native of Liverpool, and was married to Mr Cornish in Glasgow. She had been in the colony about four years, and in Stirling for the past two years. An inquiry touching the cause of death was opened at Stirling on Saturday before Mr A. E. Farquhar, J.P., acting coroner, and a jury comprising Messrs .1. ft. Henderson fforeman), C. Dutton, Joseph Day, James Pope, William Lovie, ard William Knox. Constable Marshall applied for an adjournment till Monday, in order to permit of a poet moitem examination of the body being made. ’Jlie adjournment was granted, and subsequently the inquire was further adjourned till 2 p.m. to day. Dr Burnett, Balclutha. conducted the post mortem, and (he interment took place at Dunedin vesterdnv.

THE INQUEST. [Spectat. xo the Star ] STIRLING, Mav 5. The adjourned inquiry touching the death of Mrs Cornish was proceeded with to-day before Mr Farquhar, acting coroner. Richard Cornish, husband of the deceased, gave evidence that on the Thursday night previous to his wife's death ha went to bed at a quarter-past ten. She was then lying on the sofa in a sitting room off their bedroom, and was under the influence of liquor. He got up at about quarter - past two, and found his wife lying dead in the passage between the bedroom door and the sitting room. The body was cold. From the position ill which the body lay it looked ns if she had fallen over the coalscuttle into the passage. With the assistance of the cook he carried the body to the bedroom, where the cook removed the clothes and put on a clean nightdress. He noticed blood on deceased’s hair, hut nowhere else. The mouth was swollen and discolored, as was the rest of the face. Witness telegraphed for Dr Burnett. The red woollen not (?) produced was not in the bedroom on Thursday night. The trousers produced belonged to witness. He had worn them on Thursday, the 30th, till noon, hut not since. He had assisted to kill a pig on Wednesday, and then wore the trousers produced.