An Auckland Sensation.
Auckland. Dec. mb: r HO. A death which seems to have, bcwi urrounded by peculiar circumstf: - o- took pbicc in a private hospital on Christmas n.g.B. It appears that a young woman, 24 year- m age named Susan Harriet Campbell Me .hum, whose father is stated to be harbonn i-ter at ' Port Chalmers, was admitted to tl institution on Wednesday week last on the recommendation of Ur Orpen, who also, it is said, attended her two or three times after her admission. On Christmas Eve she apparently thought herself near death, and desired to make a dying declaration. A Justice of the Peace accordingly cams and took the young woman’s statement at an early hour on Christmas morning. She died on the evening of the same day, having expressed as her last wish that her body should be sent to Port Chalmers. When the undertaker who was entrusted with the work of removal Bought to obtain a death certificate he was unable to do so, the police authorities prohibiting the interment or the removal of the body, pending a coroner’s inquest, and it is rumored that sensational disclosures will be made.
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Opunake Times, Volume VII, Issue 345, 31 December 1897, Page 3
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194An Auckland Sensation. Opunake Times, Volume VII, Issue 345, 31 December 1897, Page 3
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