INQUEST.

Evening Star, Issue 2946, 29 July 1872, Page 3

INQUEST.

An inquiry was hold at the Shamrock Hotel this afternoon, touching the death of Jane Lydia llalMay, a w ‘ n J ) r r Hockcn (Coroner and a jury. Ike Coroner ta opening the proceedings observed tha there might he nothing in the case; tat there was sufficient to justity inquiry. Mr Edward Conk watched the proceedings on behalf of Dr Docking. , .. , ~ Mr Maclio, City Missionary, said ho had known tho d' ceased for about tin o or Jour yews. She had been ill, since . - cemher S hut had only heel, confined t> bed latterly Ho visited her about fourteen days ago, when she told him her doctor W niado a fresh discovery. I’rovions to that she had told him that her trouble was an nicer on tho outside of the womb. The doctor now found that after all h.si oxam.na(ion it was a growth or tumor on the inside of the womb, and he intended to perform an operation to remove it. (Mr Cook objected to the question, but the Coroner allowed it.) She sail she was trying to bear up for the the operation. Witness said “ surely that will P not he done without consult.^ £1 with another doctor/’ (Mr Cook again objected, but the Coronel ruled.) he was obliged to take the evidence, a* the other witnesses only saw acc^ e ed p moments before her deat . ‘ it thought Dr Docking quite fit to make it himself, as fhc understood it thoioughly. Witness saw her again about midnight on Friday last; she was then and there w r as no one in the hou c. _ him tho operation had been performed by r Kkcn when she was under chloroform ; thatwh'en the ohlorofonnU"* ma” 1 Witness then got a neighbor to nurse

Mrs Louis Simon said sic habit of visiting deceased eaciy thice weeks and had known her for two year.. Wlicnshc visited her three weeks ege she herself said she was in hopes of soon being ah e to pet about again. Witness thought her hotter ; she was then able to go about Vcr house. On F, Way night ast when she visited her, she appeared be be smk u fist After detailing conversations \utli deceased, witness said T)r Docking came in about 11, and, in answer io s observation said deceased was sinking fast hat he must get her to put her hand to paper for her time was very short. He went into deceased’s bedroom for halt-an-honr and on coining out said, “Mrs Simon, 1 have got her to sign the paper, apd she has proposed what is to be done after her death ; will yon sign the paper, so as it shall stand good, and be witnek” Witness looked at tho sigmotiiro and went into the bed room and a'-ked dececacd •{ it wk hers. She said, “ Yes, I signed 1 name. I order the doctor to have everySL in the house, to do what he thinks owner with it.” Witness afterwards said to Br Docking that she did not know that she had done properly in signing the wr mth. out knowing its contents. Ihe doctor said a certain party was to collect Jho rents; that deceased’s son-in-law was to have the property ; that certain other little things were to he done, and it should he so. Witness often asked deceased to call in Dr Borrows or Dr Tlocken. as she did not believe Dr Docking thoroughly understood her case ; but she said she was satisfied with him, and that ho knew all about her case. [Deft sitting ]