DEATH FROM FRIGHT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19718, 18 August 1927, Page 10

DEATH FROM FRIGHT.

SULPHURIC ACID BURNS. WOMAN CHARGED WITH MURDER. LONDON, Aug. 11. ** I wanted to disfigure him with carbolic, so that he could not go ashore." This is one of the many remarkable statements, which the skipper of the American trader. Captain Fish, declared that Mary Waits, 34, the stewardess, made to him aboard the ship after she tad been accused of murdering Lewis Fisher, the refrigerating engineer, by /pouring acid down his throat. Giving evidence at the inquest Captain Fish said that Waite told him that Fisher had treated her unjustly. There had been a love affair betweeD them, and Fisher ■was going ashore with another woman. It was his. last voyage. Miss Waite said that sh*e had intended to make a man of him. He was very vain, but the burns would enly be effective for 10 days. She had tried not to get the acid into Fisher's eyes and mouth, she declared, and was surprised when she heard that Fisher was dead. She broke down then. " The medusal evidence was 'that death was due to syncope from fright, not to the burns. '■* The jury returned a verdict of death from natural causes after a fright, and that the stewardess had not intended to dj# Fisher serious harm.