VERDICT ON MONDAY

Chronicle (Levin), 16 September 1949, Page 5

VERDICT ON MONDAY

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Inquiry Into Woitan's Death ' Concludes

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HAMILTON, Sept. 16. When the inquest into the death of Ngaire Leslie Robinson, . also knowh as Ngaire Olive Jenkins, age'd 32, of Hamilton, was; resumed before the Coroner, Mr. S. L. Patersbh, S.M., today,- the Coroner, after .hearing the evidenee of another witness, Mrs. Ethel Taylor, at whose home deeeased commenced to haemorrhage, and recalling the pathologist dnd husband of deeeased, said he would give his ver^ dict on Monday and the court ad- • journed. Wofriaii's Evidenee. x-Ethel Mary -Taylor, marfied wolfian with a grown-up family,' living with her husband at Puahue, said that " on Ju-Iy 14 she saw Dr. F. C. Bluridell regardihg an ailment in her family. Dr. Blundell said to her that a woman had called on the previous day and she had had six children in six years and was -pregnant again. Witness said that Dr. Blundell told her he did not think she wou'd carry it. Dr. Blundell also said that he had tbld the woman to come back if she was not well. Dr. Blundell did not tell witness the woman's name and she could not say why the doctor had told her about the- woman. On July 20, witness said Dr. Blundell rang- her and said iftie woman had come back and he did not think she would carry the child. He asked witness if she would take her in for a couple of days and see how she got on. Witness agreed, and Dr. Blundell brought her out in his car. Mrs. Jenkins told witness that therq was a da^n on her property and that she would rather commit suicide than carry on with the baby. Mrs. Jenkins also told witness that she had been away two of three weeks earlier. but she was tell.ing no one what she had done. Witness said that Mrs. Jenkins had her own nightdress, but she did not have much else that witness could remember. After describing how she rang Dr. Blundell when Mrs. Jenkins began to bleed, and what the doctor diri, witness said that Mrs. Jenkins Ieft. by ambulance for a private hospital. She learned of Mrs. Jenkins's death the next morning. Witness said that for the past ten years she had been taking convalescent women patients from Dr Blundell. She was interested in this work and 'those who could pay did. She never charged women having babies and once kept a woman's baby for ten months. She could alford to do this and received no payment from anyone. Questions By Coroner. In answer to the Coroner, witness said that she never saw Dr. Blundell give the woman an anaesthetic. Mr. Paterson: Have you any facflities for dealing with a woman having a miscarriage in your home? Witness: No more than in any other nrivate home. Mr. Paterson: Have you told us all about your conversations with Mrs. Jenkins? Witness: No. We had a long talk, mostiy about monev difficulties. She told witness that she co"uld enlv take two children, one at a time, . as she had insufficient clothes. Mrs. Jenkins aho said that her husband expected h=r to make £1 go as far as £5. although he could spend £1 on beer and think nothing o£ it. - Pathologist Recalled. Reealled by the coroner, Dr. W. R. Fitchett, nathologrit at the Waikato Hosoital. said that if an. anaesthetic injection was given it would be given in the elbow. A small dose would disappear in & few hours. The Coroner: If an iniection of anae'sthetic was given Mrs. Jenkins when she first reached Mrs. Taylor's, would there be any signs of it in your post-mortem after the exhumation of the body? Dr. Fitchett: No. The husband, Harold Francis James Jenkins. a"iso reealled by the Coroner,. said that his wife had not been away for two days three weeks before she went to Dr. Blundell, as Mrs. Jenkins was supposed to have told Mrs. Taylor. Detective Hayes produced statements made by Mrs. Taylor to the police on July 23.