WESTPORT NEWS,
Westport, May 21. An inquest was held on the body of Mrs Crawford. Her husband said she goi up to come to Mr Sheehan's for him at half-past three in the morning. They went home together, and had no words . She was unusually sober. She afterwards went out the back door. Medical testimony went to show that death was not caused by drowning. Deceased's shawl was tied round her neck, covering her head. A verdict of death from suffocation was returned, the jury adding that there was no evidence as to how such suffocation was caused.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXIII, Issue 3357, 22 May 1879, Page 2
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