INQUESTS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3932, 26 February 1884, Page 3

INQUESTS.

Wellington, This day,

The inquest on Olga Stehense, the barmaid who died from taking poison, was continued yesterday. Miller admitted that his name had appeared in the Auckland papers in connection with a seduction case, and also that he had given her poison obtained in Auckland to kill rats. After she had taken the uoiscm she had tho key of the bedroom, and" told witness she was all right. Directly witness promised not to go for a doctor deceased opened the door and witness ran for the chemist. Dr Gillon held mortem, and said ho found the lungs healthy, but tht, heart empty, and the kidneys coagulated. The stomach was very much inflamed. The former drew the attention of the jury to the very long time that elapsed between the time deceased had eaten the poison until medical aid was obtained. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased met her death by poison administered by her own hand, not believing at the time in the deadly nature of the compound. A rider was added that Mr W. R. Miller deserves severe censure for not calling medical aid earlier. CiiRiSTCHURCir, This day. At tho inquest on D. Hayes, who was thrown from his horse on Thursday week when riding to Leeston to hear Mr Wakefield's address, never recovered consciousness, and died on Friday last at Southbridge, tho jury found a verdict that deceased died from severe concussion and bruising of the brain, adding a rider censuring the publicans of Southbridge for supplying Hayes with drink, knowing that a prohibition order wan out against him. Deceased leaves a wife and six children.