A SENSATIONAL CASE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13298, 6 February 1914, Page 3

A SENSATIONAL CASE.

DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN. : SEIZING THE BED. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. At the inquest concerning the death of the young woman, Catherine Ann Hearne, Joseph Draper, father of the deceased, gave evidence that his daughter and her husband resided with him. On Saturday last deceased complained of headache. She was resting on the bed, when a man walkjed m and said his name • was Emanu'el, that he wanted the property belonging to him, and was going to get it. The bailiff took hold Of, the bed on which deceased was lying. "Witness grappled ' with him and put' him outside. ; Another man whom witness ribwvknew to be Louis Emanuel came to the bailiff's assistance. With his daughter's assistance, witness closed the door. Deceased subsequently went ••tip.. her aster's house' next,. door.- .Five mtbutes later he was m formed his daughter was dead . The inquesi'TSj. proceeding. I&ter.— -Margaret Hearne, sister of the deceased, said that she resided next door to Emanuel. A man named Humphreys entered her house with a carter, and started to remove t/he bed and -bedding. Deceased seized a poker. Emanuel pushed her, causing her to fall. . Then he removed the furniture. Deceased, witr ness, and her mother went into the deceased's house. Deceased became unwell, and had a miscarriage. A doctor was sent for, but deceased .was dead whenOhe arrived. '.;/ ' - ■ ■,