WOMAN'S MYSTERIOUS DEATH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9137, 9 February 1910, Page 3

WOMAN'S MYSTERIOUS DEATH.

SYDNEY, Feb. 28. Dr. Fiaschi and Nurse Young, on remand, charged with having , feloniously and maliciously murdered Julia Anna Nightingale at Lithgow, were brought before the police court to-day and forrnall\ remanded till to-morrow. At the inquest on the body of the deceased woman it transpired that she died at Nurse Young's Hospital after an operation which Dr. Fiaschi stated was performed for piles. Di;. Machattie. of Bathurst, said that at Jumper's Flat Cemetery, on January 20. he, together with Dr. Pritchard Biassett, made a post-mortem examination of the- body of Miss Nightingale. Certain organs were found to be missing. Whoever removed them must have been a very celver man. with an intimate knowledge of surgical anatomy. The operation must have been performed somewhere about the time of the paiienfs death. There were certain things in connection with the condition of affairs which would lead him to believe that the removal took place after death. Witness saw no evidence of an operation for piles. In his opinion the cause of death was hemorrhage and shock.

Superintendent Johnson stated that when the warrant was read over to Finschi jit the police station, ho .said: —"I won't, say I murdered the woman. I did what I could for her. I deny murdering the woman totally. I say no more." Then ho added: —"On whoso information is this about, sir.- I was in Sydney at the time. If Mr Nightingale was dissatisfied, he should have said so at the time I gave him the certificate."' Witness, continuing, said 'fchat when he read the warrant over to Nurse Young, she said. "Oh, sir.. I did not murder her." He told her that certain organs of deceased's, body were missing, and aeked here if she knew_ where they wore. She replied that she did net know. Th? inauest stands adjourned.