ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17418, 5 September 1928, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

DEATH OF YOUNG WOMAN. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. Sept, 5. An inquest was held to-day before Air. Page, S.M., with regard to the death in the Wellington Hospital of Adrienne Alary Stouppe, a single bman aged 20. Dr. Rhind gave evidence that on August 8 he was called to the hospital to see the deceased whom he found suffering from acute generalised peritonitis and who, had recently had a miscarriage. She died on August 10.

Dr. Lynch, who conducted a' post mortem, could not .say if an instrument had been used and the deceased’s mother gave evidence that her daughter had been taken to a doctor for treatment of nerves, but witness did not know she was pregnant. Her daughter on August 1 said she was going to Wtiikanae for a rest for ten days. Witness did not see her daughter till August 8, when she came home. She appeared very ill and witness asked where she had been, hut her daughter would not say a word nor who was responsible for her condition. Dr. Clay, who had been called to the home on August 8, asked for the Court’s • ruling when asked by ChiefDetective Ward if the deceased had said who had caused the miscarriage.

Air. Page said he thought a doctor should answer and Dr. Clay said it was Dr. Hennessey. Other evidence included a witness named Ralph Heaten AVear, an engineer. a married man, who worked at the same place a.s deceased. He said he sometimes took her part of the way home in his car. Tmt he never took her out on oilier occasions. He declined to say whether he saw her on August 1 or 8. He admitted having been to Waikanae on the latter date but lie would not say whether he had received any telegram there. , The Chief-Detective : Did you see Dr. Hennessey in connection with the tieceased?—No; I’ve never seen Hennessev.

Did you not supply the deceased with money?—No.

Witness said lie was not responsible for the deceased’s condition. He did not know she was so. He never had intercourse with her. A verdict was returned that the cause of death wa.s pyaemia, following septic abortion, criminally produced.

SPINAL MENINGITIS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) TIMARU, Sept. 5. Miss Flora McKenzie, aged 19. a member of the Southland fliockey team participating in the women’s championship tournament, died in the hospital this morning. She was taken ill at a dance on Saturday, becoming unconscious, from which she never recovered. It is believed the cause of death was spinal meningitis. All this morning’s games were postponed.