MYSTERIOUS DEATH

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 5 March 1914, Page 5

MYSTERIOUS DEATH

DUNEDIN, March 5

The adjourned inquest on the body of Mrs Doocey, who died somewhat suddenly on Saturday evening, was concluded. It was supposed that death was due to a fall sustained as the result of deceased being bumped by a drunken man in tiie street about midday on Saturday.

Kathleen Doocey. aged 12 years, said she was walking ahead of her mother. Passing the Grand Hotel she saw a man swaying in his walk, and immediately afterwards she heard a fall. On turning round she saw her mother on the ground, and she thought the man must have bumped her. Soon afterwards her mother took ill.

Alexander Gunn, commercial traveller, who saw deceased fall 3 said she seemed to catch her head-on a grating and fall on her 6ide. Witness saw no drunken man. Similar evidence was given by Edward Levido. Dr Roberts, hon. pathologist at the hospital, regarded it as a case of spontaneous haemorrhage, and thought the fall had nothing to do with it. The case was homeless from the start.

A verdict *was returned accordingly.