A WOMAN'S SAD END.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 62, 6 November 1912, Page 3

A WOMAN'S SAD END.

ITS REVOLTING FEATURES

(Per Press Association.)

Wellington, November 5

Dr. McArthur, S.M., the coroner, opened an inquest to-day on the bod\ of Jane May Alien, widow,sl years old. who was found dead in a bed in Cl Tinakori road on Sunday morning. Evidence was given by Dr. Pattie, who was called to the House by telephone, that a little after noon he found a woman fully dressed, with the exception of her boots, lying on her left side on a bed. Her face was partially inclined to the pillow. There was discoloration on the front part of her face, neck, arms, and hands. ihh would be due to post mortem lavidity. The features were flattened, and this seemed to have been caused by tin weight of her head on the pillow. No marks of violence were found on the bead, neck or arms, though the doctor did not examine the body for such marks. He could not say how long i the woman had been dead, but at tin 1 time he formed the opinion that it war I for no less a period than 24 hours. 1 Charles Borck, waterside worker, who i had with the deceased for the j bist four years, stated that he turned tiie deceased over about 11 o’clock or Sunday, and she did not seem to be dead. He thought she was unwell, sc he sent for Drs. Pattie and Izard. The last time he spoke to the woman war at 11450 on Friday evening. Twice that night he had given her brandy, to which she was much addicted. All day Saturday he went about the town, i an d went home drunk about midnight, j The woman was then lying on the bed, . but he did not speak to her, nor she 'to him. He could not toll whether ' she was alive after 11.30 on Friday night. At no time had he ever struck the woman.

Other evidence was given that the woman was seen alive after 7 p.m. on Friday, and Constable Thompson stated that the room in which the body was found resembled a pig-stye. The bed-clothes were filthy. The inquest was then adjourned until Monday, when the evidence of Dr. Fyfe, who held a post-mortem, will be given.