AN AUCKLAND MYSTERY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13418, 4 July 1911, Page 7

AN AUCKLAND MYSTERY.

THE DEATH OF ELSIE HOLLAND. The Inquest. (Per United. Press AssociaUon). AUCKLAND, July 4. The adjourned inquest concerning the death of Elsie Holland, which occurred under somewhat mysterious circumstances at the residence of Mrs O’Shaughnessy, at Kingslaud, has been resumed. Mrs O'Shaughnessy was examined at length as to the occupants of her house on the night the woman died. She stated that on returning home between 11.25 and 11.45 p.m. after a short absence, she found a strange woman (the deceased) in her house. The woman was lying on a bed. Witness asked who she was. and if she would have a doctor, but got no reply. Later on she repeated the question. The di ceased shook her head. Froth was then coming from the woman’s raoutH. About 1 a.m. she sent her husband for a doctor, but the woman was dead before the doctor arrived. Witness denied having previously seen a bottle of tabloids of percholide of mercury before.