VERONAL AND LYSOL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1659, 28 January 1913, Page 3

VERONAL AND LYSOL.

INQUEST AT CITT .MORGUE. An.inquest regarding the death of, Lillian Mabel M'llveen, recently bookkeeper at the Grand Hotel, was held before,l)r. jM'Arthjir,,at,.the. morgue yesterday after;ncon'.. ' ' '. ~ Deceased "was 32 years of ,age, and was born in Belfast, Ireland.She was mar-, ried in Sydney some years, ago to a man. named Green. . Neither .Mrs. Duncan-nor Mr. Boyeridgo was aware that she was married until they found her marriage certificate in the safe. - "■

Dr. j. Ewart stated that lie had been called in to Attend deceased on Friday last. He had attended deceased in November last," when sho was'suffering from ear trouble. From the effects of the ear trouble there were signs, of brain trouble also. He was aware then that-sho was in the habit of taking veronal to induce sleep. When he visited'her on Friday ho thought that she was suffering from veronal poisoning. He visited her again that day at 10 p.m. She was then conscious, and told him that she had taken four tabloids of veronal. ' Each, tabloid contained seven and a half grains. He saw her again on Saturday evening, and left her in charge of her sister. He was called again at 5 'a.m. on Sunday, January 2G, and found her in a dying condition. He remained with her two and a half hours. She was then getting worse. Ho called again about 10, and learned that she had just died. He found a small bottle of lysol in the room, and a lso a tumbler containing a small quantity of lysol. He did not think that, on Saturday evening, deceased had sufficiently recovered from the veronal poisoning :to be responsible for her actions. He was of opinion that death was due to veronal poisoning, accelerated by taking lysol. Evidence was also given by John Beveridge, licensee of the Grand Hotel, and by Mrs. Muriel Duncan, sister of de-* ceased. The latter stated that, on Saturday night she sat up with deceased. Deceased asked her to go out of the room, so that she might go to sleep. Witness thereupon went to another room, from the window of which; she could see. deceased's room. She r.oticed ' that the light was out, and decided to return to the room. Having switched on the light, she saw deceased lying on the bed, and near by was a glass and bottle of lysol. The coroner found a verdict, in accordance with the doctor's evidence, viz., that deceased had come to her death through taking lj'sol, following upon veronal poisoning, ' while probably of unsound mind, duo to mental worry.