WOMAN'S STRANGE DEATH.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 568, 17 May 1913, Page 5

WOMAN'S STRANGE DEATH.

HUSBAND'S PECULIAR EVIDENCE. INQUEST ADJOURNED. By Telegraph..—Press Association.— Oop.vtLe.W Received May 16, 9.25 p.m. Melbourne, Friday.

Peculiar evidence was tendered at the inquest on the wife of George Samuel Capeness, commercial traveller. Capeness testified that he resided at Oxford Chambers. At five o'clock in the morning he was informed by the caretaker that his wife had fallen out of the window. Witness asked his wife what had happened, and she replied she did not know. Witness and his wife occupied the same room. He last spoke to her at 10.15 the previous night. Witness and his wife were not very happy owing to his attachment to a young girl. His wife was a sleep-walker, and he believed that caused his wife's death. His wife often requested him to give the girl up. He tried, but found the attraction too great. The girl accompanied witness and his wife, and this wife's request, holiday to Tasmania last Christmas.

The caretaker, Norman D. Chambers, testified that he heard a scuffle, then someone running away. He heard a tremendous scream a few moments later; his wife also heard it. He then heard a fall. He went downstairs'and found the woman, who had been carried into the basement by a constable. The noise of scuffling lasted about five minutes, but he heard no voices or any attempt to open the window. He would not explain the sound which he took for scuffling. He admitted his hearing was not too good owing to an ear trouble. He slept on the third floor, some distance from Oxford Chambers, about thirty feet. The medical evidence showed there were no signs of injuries that could not be caused by the fall. The inquest was adjourned.