FROM GRAVE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17409, 6 November 1930, Page 11

FROM GRAVE

MIDNIGHT REMOVAL FOUL PLAY FEARED LONDON, Oct. .25. Mystery surrounds the secret exhumation of the body of Mrs. Catherine Ramage, who died last February, aged 43, and was buried at Slioreltain, Sussex. The exhumation took place at midnight, and the eminent pathologist, Sir Bernard Spilsbury, has been called in. The liomu Ol'fico took this action after representation had been made by the family, including her mother, who says she was worried for the first time about Catherine after a seance.

Mrs. Damage hud been married 10 years, and lived for three years at Shoreham with her husband, next door to her brother, a former London police sergeant, named Moore, Ihe hit ten says lm is determined to have the death thoroughly sifted, because he was not aware that bis sister had suffered from heart disease, lo which death was attributed. Mrs. Ramage was ill , lor 'several months, and was believed to have appendicitis. She went to London, recovered, and returned to Shorebam after last Christmas, blit was taken ill again. Apparently she was improving, and was sitting in a bedroom watching her mother polishing a wardrobe. She said, “That's a pretty piece of wood.’’ FELL' BACK DEAD. Those were her last- words. I.ler mother, in a minor, saw tier fall back dead. The husband, Arthur Edward Raniam-, 41. was absent in London when his wife died, and Jie was greatly stricken with grief. Ho married again in June the 21-year-old cashier of a, tea-shop which he had visited every day-for years while wailing for his train to 'Nhoreham. "The inquest- was opened to-day, and adjourned. The former husband attended and identified the body. Certain organs from the remains have been forwarded to Sir Bernard Spilsbuiy for analysis.