INQUEST.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10239, 22 December 1894, Page 7

INQUEST.

An inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Marion Estelle Isabel, daughter of Mr O. N. Baeyertz, was held at the residence of the latter, at Calton, North-East Valley, yesterday afternoon, before Me Coroner Carew and six ■'"^Davies deposed that about ?• o-olock on Thursday afternoon he was told that there was a child drowned at Mr Baeyertz's houss. He came immediately, and saw tha body shown to tbe jury. It was lying in the kitchen and some people were trying to resuscitate it. He was told that the child was taken, out of the well in the kitchen. He. examined it, and behaved it was dead. He tried to resuscitate it for over an hour, but was unahls to do nn. He could see no marks on the body; but since then mark* on the face bad developed which rnijht be accounted for by a blow received in falling against the side of the well. In his opinion the cause of death was I dlCharTes'N. Baeyerta deposed that he wan a journalist. Tbe body shown to the jury was that of

IMPRISONED ON A SHIP,

Tho steamship Normaunia, from Hamburg, arrived in tbe port of New York cm Saturday, September 3, 1892, with cases of caolera cm board. Many of too ship's company bail died cm tho paisaso. At; Hamburg and elsewhere m Europe the i&ense was raging. The authorities in America were alarmed l«-nt tbe iscourgj should be introduced into that country. Heuce they quarantined the NormauuU with every soul of her p.issengers and c on. The writer was a p»FSenj;er. If. wjs en awful time. Death was among us and on all sidfts ol us. Nobody knew who next would fall. AYe were imprisoned. Liberty never acemftl so fair, nor so far. We could neither light nor fly. lhera we were—hmulrei's of us— perfectly well, aud vot bound toother as with chains, that the hfiiUb. officer of the port tni-jlit see whether tua i plague would cot yet break out in our midst Whou at last ■ after weeks of tais—we were set on shore, men hftad their hats aud reverently said, "Thank God!" This was being ;hufc up under conditions to maYo it h- rrihle and fearful. Yet any form of iuaarceration is bad enough. Here is a womau, ior e«mp!c, who says, " / never moved a yard from my own doorstep for W weeks!" Her own houHO was a prison to her. Who had sentenced her? A judge? No; a power greater aait more pitiless tiaitn any judge. Her tele runs thus: In April 1882, whilst living as Lasher's farm, Olii Samfard, li'Sfx, a. lire broke out, -and the family w-re burned out | of house and boms. AYe have no call to remark i lon sush ft calamity. The vM-f ttiought or it ij . tit io make one shiver with dread, ior most ct us ii is like the world coming to an end to experience such a disaster. , , , Wtll what happaued after that the lady r-hall tell iv her own fashiou-the best of all fi>sb.ious, because it is plain nnd straight to the point. She .«a.ys :-" Owing to our bedding beins; damp from exposure. I took a.b&d cold, which brought en rheumitic fever, lor 1* clays 1 was conihud 1.0 my bed, and for 20 weeks I never moved a yard ftom my own door.-tep. ■Vfter a tim« the 'fever abated, leaving mo weak, languid, aud low. At first I h»d a sitkemng taste in the mouth and a poor appetite. ISo matter how simple and ligHt the food was, I was afr»id to eat, for it was sore to give me pain a..; the chest aid sides; so 1 often had to loosen ray cors-t and uadivss myself durmg toe day. I could uob bear the weight ot my C'°« Iwas constantly spitting up a sour, frothy fluid, and bad a gnawing pain at the pit ot the stomach-like huuser, and yet different;. It was with difficulty I voided the kidney eecee--1 tio", and my bowel?, ankles, and legs began to sw,-11. I cob wowe ; 1 was in ag..-ny night and day, »nd could no-, put my f<-ot i-u the ground. Scon afterwards a husky cough took me, and , my throat filled with s. thick pblegm. I could ! not sleep, and was never easy. Later on I had ' often to sit up ia bed, for 1 felt as it 1 should choke. „ " "Year after year I continued to suiter iv