INQUEST.

North Otago Times, 21 May 1912, Page 4

INQUEST.

An inciuest Has kid til-ore Mr T. Hutchison, Coroner, yesterday morning, touching .the death of a-woman, an old age pensioner, John Miller, a clerk, said he iden'tified the body of a woman known to him as Mrs Taylor. ■ She was generally known as Harriet Ambler.' She was a widow and an old age pensioner. She lived in it cottage adjoining his- house. She had lived there for four or.five years. He knew her by seeing her going out and coming in. She sometimes wety away lor several -days at ;a time. He last saw her on VI etas-day afternoon. Neither he nor any of the neighbors had seen her since. On Sunday he went to find out whather .she was at home', He found the door locked, and on .looking through a window saw 'a body lying across the-hod. He recognised' it as Harriet toller, 'and immediately sent, for the police, Dr Orbell-said he receiver* a call from the police about midday on Sunday to a 'house in Exe street. He was -shown the hody of a w0 " man, and was told the name of. deceased was Harriet Ambler. marks of violence were found on the body, Dented,-must tovo tim

dead'from .'36:- Ho 48 houra. • 'After hearing that teased was 75,. years of age, and had BUffcry] from heart diseaso and asthma, he would say ■that death was probably, due to heart disease. ' . The' Coroner found that deceased died ahout Friday, the I.7th, , from heart disease. ;