A MYSTERIOUS DEATH.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 21 April 1925, Page 5

A MYSTERIOUS DEATH.

EXPERTS BAFFLED. (BY TKI.EGRAPD PRESS ASSOCIATIONCHRISTCHURCH, April 20. The origin of the cause of death is a question which has baffled the pathologist at Christchurch Hospital and the Government Analyst in connection with the death of Ellen Eva Reader, a married women, aged 22 years, who died suddenly in her bedroom in the house of her mother-in-law in Sydenham on April 4. , „ .. They told the District Coroner, Mr. Wyvern Wilson, who conducted the investigation, that the origin of the cause was unknown to them, though they had both examined portions of the body. “After I made an examination I was unable to assign any cause for her death,” said Dr. Pearson, pathologist at the hospital, who made the poet mortem examination of the body on April 5. There were many minor causes, but none of them seemed sufficient. He had made a microscopical examination, but that had revealed nothing beyond what he could see with his naked eye. The general appearance indicated an asphyxiated type of death, and, although he had not suspected it, he had been on the look out for alkaloid poisoning, but he had found no trace of it. The cause of death, he thought, was asphyxia, due to an unknown origin associated with the status lymphaticus m a moderate degree. Evidence was given by Mr. A. A. Biekerton, Government Analyst, who said that he had been given a portion of the brain and the contents of the stomach by the police, and had made a chemical examination of them, hut he could find nothing to account for death.