WOMEN'S EXTRAORDINARY DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 257, 3 November 1906, Page 13

WOMEN'S EXTRAORDINARY DEATH.

•Afi'eitraordiaary .story was told to the Bath Coroner at the tt-allcUiall In September at an inquest Fowell. The widower said they formerly kept a-monkey, and ou September 2 it bit his wife, with-the result that she died'on- IT.. It had. previously bitten her twice, but she refused to get rid of the brute. It had been slncei.sent to .a private menagerie in Uyncombe Hill. A-neighbour and. a man _who was present at the time of the occurrence said Mra Fowell was smoothing or playing with the monkey with her hand between the bars of its cage. When she tnrned round to speak it bit her, and in pulling her hand away her finger was ripped open on its teeth.

Dr. White eaid the animal was the most ferocious he had ever seen outside a Zoo. The fangs were nearly an Inch long, and very strong. She had Deen bitten twice before, and each time the wound mortified next day. He warned her that the nextblje would be her last, and repeatedly advised her to get rid of it, but she always said it "was one of the family." The bite was one of the most poisonous he had ever known, and blood-poisoning was set up, heart failure resulting. x The jury found according to the medical evidence, that death was due directly to heart failure and Indirectiy to the bite of * monkey.