EXHUMATION OF BODY

Taranaki Daily News, 7 November 1930, Page 7

EXHUMATION OF BODY

STRANGE CASE IN SUSSEX. London, October Mystery surrounds the secret exhumation of the body of Mrs. Catherine Ramage, who died in February, aged 43, and was buried at Shoreham, Sussex, The exhumation took place at midnight and the eminent pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury has been called in.

The Home Office took this action after representation had been made by the family, including deceased’s mother, who says she was worried for the first time about Catherine after a seance.

Airs. Ramage had been married 10 years, and\ lived for three years at Shoreham with her husband, next door to her brother, a former London policesergeant named Moore. The latter says he is determined to have the death thoroughly sifted, because he was not aware that his sister had suffered from heart disease, to which death was at- >’ tributed.

Deceased was ill for several months and was believed to have had appendicitis. She went to London, recovered, and returned to Shoreham after last Christmas, but’was taken ill again. Apparently she was improving, and was sitting in a bedroom watching her mother - polishing a wardrobe. She said, “That is a; pretty piece of wood.” • Those were her last words. Her' ■! mother, in a mirror, saw her fall back dead.

The husband Arthur Edward Ramage, aged 41, was absent in London when his wife died. He married again in June the 21-year-old cashier of .a teashop which he had visited every day for years while waiting for his train to Shoreham.

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 Spilsbury for analyst/