NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

Grey River Argus, Volume LVII, Issue 9865, 31 December 1897, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

'VKR PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, December 30. At the irquest on the young woman M'Callum to-day Dra Bakewell and £cut't, who made the post mortem examination, deposed that tiuy found evidence of. the cue of aa instrument which had caused great inflammation of the tissues aod peritonitis. Dr Bakewell said that the madiol men were constantly being pestered by woman to perform illegal operatlcnß. He had to turn two women oat of his honse last week, as they persisted worrying him for that purpose. Inspector Hickson raid he had evidence tlmt Dr Orpen took paaiage by the San Fran* claoo mall steamer. Henderson, manager I of the Union Company, deposed that Dr Orpen left by the Alamed* tor Fri co He booked aa Arthuc Herbert »nd took a B'eer>ga passage. Witness Baw him leave. An undertaker named Little deposed to the removal of the body and he did not kaow about any auspicious circumstances until Sunday, when he sent to Dc Orpen to get the death certificate and found that Opa^n bad gene. The Inquest) vsb adjourned until to-morrow. Later. The Inquest on the woman M'OaUum was oouliuoed. C W/tle, the undertaker, deposed that nurse Ogllvie, of tha private hospital, explained to him that the woman was a patient of Dr Orpen's and had died, md decaased hid expressed a wish for the body to be sent to Danedin. The nurse said that the cause of deith was peritonitis. When he began to embilra the body he thought from its appearanoe that there waa something more than peritonitis that had cawed death. For that reason he did not touoh the abdomen at all.- Dr Bakewell Informed him of the embilmlng of the body and aided him considerably In per* forming the post m-rtem Aa to arresting decomposition, one of the jarors said he would like Dr Bjkewell recalled, ao that he could be asked his opinion as to the operation performed on deceased at the private hospital by DrParohaas. Dr Scot had already given his opinion en it and said be thoughb Dr Parchaßs'a operation ; had nothing whatever to do with the g'rl's death. The Coroner agreed to re call Dr Bakewell to-morrow on that point. Tbe ir,queet was adjourned. The j Coroner issued a certificate for the re- \ moval of the body. f Napieb, December 30. A married woman named Annie ] pringgany, residing in Hiding's Road, ] Spit, waß found dead in bed to-day. At 1 tho inquest death was shown to have re-. Bolted from heart disease. The husband was working at Gisborne. Christohukch, December 30. f Mrs F. S. Fester, the Lady Principal * of the Ohiisioharoh Girli' High Sohool f

aad wife of the head-master of the Ohrlstchuroh West District Sohool, died suddenly (his afternoon at Ranglora, where she wbb visiting her husband's relations, Heart disease Is supposed to be the oauße of death. .Mr Foster is away, on a cycling tour to the West Coast.