SUDDEN DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 122, 31 May 1870, Page 2

SUDDEN DEATH.

This morning about a quarter before ten o'clock, a woman was found lying on the roadway off Harding-street, and on examination was found to be quite dead. The body was identified as tbat of Mrs. Mary Anne Priaiilx, the wife of a boatman, at present on a trip since Sunday last, in a cargo boat to Elliott's Creek, besides Henderson's mill, and who is expected to return to town to-day. 11 appears that the deceased had been known to he subject to periodical fits of intemperance, and during the past three or four days had been drinking excessively. When not under the influence of the enslaving vice, she was a tidy nice-looking respectable woman. The deceased, who was about thirty years of age, has left three little children of about six and eight years, who it appears brought spirits from a public-house to the deceased yesterday evening, three bottles having been found beside the bed in the house ; one having contained beer, another rum, and the third gin. This morning, about eight o'clock, or an hour and a half before the body was observed, the deceased had been visited by a neighbour, Mrs. Donaldson, and had made her join her in a cup of tea. Deceased, it appears, was at that time somewhat under the influence of drink. The Coroner's inquest will be held to-morrow at 2 p.m., at at Akers', Red Lion .Hotel, Drake-street.