STRANGE AFFAIR.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1752, 17 May 1913, Page 5

STRANGE AFFAIR.

PECULIAR EVIDENCE AT AN INQUESTBy Telenrapli—Press Aflsoolation-Oopyrlsht (Rec. May 16, 9.23 p.m.) Melbourne, May 16. Some peculiar evidenco was tendered at an inquest concerning the death of the wife of George Samuel Capeuess, a commercial traveller. Capeness testified that he resided in tho Oxford Chambers. At fivo o'clock this morning he was informed by the caretaker that his wife had fallen out of a window. Witness asked his wife what had happened and sho replied that sho did not know. Witness and his wife had occupied the sanio room, and Capeness said he last spoke to her at a quarter past ten on tho previous night. Witness and his wife had not lived very happily owing to his attachment for a young girl. Capeness said his wife was a sieep-walker and he believed that it was this that had caused her death. His wife had often requested him to give the girl up, and ho had tried but he had found the attraction too great. The girl had accompanied witness and his wife, at tho wife's request, on a holiday trip to Tasmania last Christmas. Nonaand, tho" caretaker of Oxford Chambers, gavo evidence that ho had heard a scuffle and then someone running away. Ho had heard a tremendous scream a few moments later, and his wife had also heard it. Then he heard a fall. He went downstairs and found that tho woman Mrs. Capeness, had been carried into the basement by a constable. Tho noise of tho scuffling had lasted about five minutes. Ho had heard no voices. An attempt to open tho window would not explain the sound which ho took for scuffling. The caretaker admitted that his hearing was not too' good, owing to ear trouble. He slept on tho third floor, a distance from Oxford Chambers of about thirty-five feet. Tho medical evidence was totho effect that there were no signs of injuries that could not be caused by a. fall. . » The inquest was adjourned.