WOMAN'S DEATH.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20496, 15 March 1932, Page 3

WOMAN'S DEATH.

INQUEST CONCLUDED. The adjourned inquest into the death of Gladys Tsobel Milligan. a single woman, aged 32. who died suddenly, at the home of her parents. Go Kingsley street, Sydenham, on February 15th last, was re-opened before the Coroner, Mr H. P. Lawry, yesterday afternoon. • Evidence of identification had been given by her latiier, jatues -Uiiligan, who said that . Ins daughter was a machinist, but 'had oeen unemployed since November. She had always enjoyed good health. She went to her'room about 11 a.m. on February 15 th after helping her mother with the housework. She was heard moaning, and was - found lying fully clothed on her bed. A doctor was called, but did not arrive until after she had died. In his evidence yesterday, the same witness said that when he heard his daughter groaning in the bedroom his wife and his son also followed him into the room. Gladys Milligan was lying on her back on the bed, which was not disarranged Witness was satisfied she was dead when he first saw her. He had seen her go to the bedroom about half an hour beforehand, and, at that time, there vvere only witness, Ins wife and son in the liouse. There had been no vjsitors. There was no sign of a smell in the room when witness went in. There had been' no indication of intention to commit suicide. There was nobodv else in the house that morning.. Raymond Harold Milligan, a single man, 26 years of age. the brother of Gladys Milligan. said that he was home at about 10.30 a.m. on Monday, February loth. He heard his sister groaning and followed his father and mother to her bedroom. , . - The finding brought in by the Coroner in accordance with medicaL evidence by Dri A. B. Pearson, pathologist at the Christchureh Hospital, was that death had been due to heart failure resulting from air embolism.