DEATH OF MISS O'BRIEN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14927, 1 September 1910, Page 7

DEATH OF MISS O'BRIEN

EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST. REMARKABLE STATEMENTS. Prew Association—By l'pleeraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, August 31. (Received' August 31, at 9 p.m.) The coroner has opened an inouest on tho body of Miss O'Brien. the Government Analyst, who had examined tho stomach. of the deceased, deposed that it contained ergot and traces of an unknown drug. The examination was not complete. The mother of tho girl (Nurse Roe, who had married again) gavo evidence that she was unaware that the girl'had any trouble. Mrs Nock deposed that on the day of Miss O'Brien's disappearance witness saw Nurse Brown. A young lady came and went upstairs with Nurse Brown, and shortly afterwards Nurse Brown came down and said the girl had fainted. Witness helped to carry the girl to the balcony. Nurse Brown sent her with a message to Nurse Roe. Witness saw no more of the girl, but on the following Wednesday she saw Nurse Brown at tho races, and Nurse Brown told her that they put the girl on the sandhills. Witness remarked "How cruel," and Nurse Brown replied, "Better to put her there than throw-'her over the cliffs, as the girl's father and mother wanted."

Nurso'Roe denied having visited Nurse Brown, and- also the . statement about throwing the body over the cliffs.