YOUNG WIFE'S FATE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23085, 9 July 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)

YOUNG WIFE'S FATE

COLLAPSE AFTER BATH ! CORONER NOW SATISFIED 'A "PUBLIC INTEREST" INQUEST At the close of an inquest held, lie stated, "in the public interest the Romford, Essex, coroner made it clear that the death of Mrs. Winifred Maj Turner, aged 24, an usherette at a cinema in Upminster, had been explained. Mrs. Turner collapsed after 'IS coroner, Mr. L. P. Bcoite, «- marked that after fully the circumstances ho was <l" ltc • that death was due to natural canst. , but later certain information came to hand which seemed to create an atmos- • phere of suspicion Turner The husband, Benjamin 1 . Turner, declared that his wife s health seeme, 1 quite good, except that she had f;un^'( once or twice when she had a bath. H(_ tried to get her to go to a doctor, but she would not. , ,-r. When she collapsed he could not lift her from the bathroom floor, as his left nrm seemed useless. He did not remember what happened afterwards. He recalled going over the road te summon aid in the morning. Air Turner added that he had been delirious and was in hospital for a mouth afterwards. \ neighbour gave evidence that he found Mis. Turner in the batluoom. S " as he could smell gas, lie opened tho window. He then discovered that the woman was dead. Or I H Bletsoe said he came to the conclusion that Mrs. Turner had been dead about seven or eight hours. Coroner: It has been suggested she had been' dead much longer.—-No, J •don't think so. , Dr. I''. I'j. Camps, pathologist, who xi) ado a post-mortem examination, said be found traces of heart disease. Mrs. Turner's father said. the trouble was that neither' he nor his wife could get any sort of explanation of his daughter's death from his son-in-law. He accepted the evidence now given. Dr. K. B. Whittinghani, telling of the husband's admission to Old Church Hospital, said Mr. Turner was seriously '"lie, the doctor, thought be would have been delirious the previous night, and in a confused state, in consequence of toxic poisoning. The coroner remarked that lie and the police were now perfectly satisfied that .Mrs. Turner's death was due to natural causes

He recorded a verdict to that efleet,