BODY IN BATCH

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 73, 22 June 1928, Page 5

BODY IN BATCH

WOMAN’S STRAIN!CE -DEATH;

INQUEST HELD

Press Association— Copyright CHRISTCHURCH, This Day,

An inquest into the death of Emily Martha Forward (21), who was found dead in a hach at Bowbill Road, New Brighton on June 6, was resumed before Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., coroner, this morning. Death had taken place about ten weeks before the body was discovered.

Mr F. D. Sargent appeared for William Burgess, a taxi-driver, who had paid the rent of the bach. Constable Henderson said Miss Forward’s head was lying towards the gas stove, the tube of which had been disconnected. There was a writing pad open oh the kitchen table, and there were two envelopes addressed to Burgess. The inquest is proceeding. A DISGRACE TO THE MAN.

The coroner’s verdict was suicide by gas poisoning. He added, “during my somewhat lengthy experience of the weaknesses of human nature, I have seldom met with a case of such callous indifference, as lias boon revealed by the evidence which hag been brought before me this morning.

It has revealed, a state of things that is a disgrace to our much vaunted civilisation and certainly a disgrace to the man Burgess who has! given evidence before me."