INQUEST.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8573, 15 March 1906, Page 3

INQUEST.

» An inquest was held this morning, touching the death of Violet Muriel Owens/who died on Tuesday afternoon. The inquiry was before Mr V. 6. Day. Emily oweii6, mother of the deceased, j stated that she brought deceased home from jservioe on Friday last. Dr Crawshaw attended her. A miscarriage occurred on Saturday night. The doctor was not present, and did not arrive till next morning. He •told witness her daughter waß in a dangerous condition. On Monday, Dr Crawshaw decided to perform an operation, as deceased had blood poisoning. He was assisted* by Dr Shone. Deceased appeared to recover somewhat after the operation, but gradually sank, and died on Tues-' day afternoon. Deoeaeed was seventeen years old. Witness asked deceased repeatedly if anything had been done to her, but she said she had taken nothing and done nothing^ but had had a fall on Monday week while carrying clothes out of. a laundry. Dr J^mes Henry Crawshaw, practising temporarily as locum tenens for Dr Diamond, stated that- deceased was brought to his surgery on March 9, end .she was so ill he advised that she be don/fc home., at once. A miscarriage occurred on Monday, and the deceased was bo much worse after it that he and Dr. Shone operated on her. When th<v operation was finished, the girl collapsed, and was very ill for about five hours, all of which time the two stayed with her. She rallied taen, and they left her. On Tuesday he saw her again at 11 a.m., when she seemed fairly well, but she died quite suddenly during the afternoon. He could not assign any cause of death except shock, probably due to the opera- ' tion. Dr William Vernon Shone gave similar evidence. Dr Herbert M'Clelland Inglis, who made a post-mortem examination of the deceased, said the conditions were quite consistent with a previous miscarriage. In his opinion the cause of death was collapse from shock, and subsequent peritonitis. •A verdict w returned that deceased died from shock, consequent upon an operation. ■