INQUEST.

Evening Star, Issue 4201, 14 August 1876, Page 3

INQUEST.

An inquest was held at the‘Hospital at noon to-day, before the -District Coroner (Mr T. M. Hocken) and a jury, upon the body of a woman named Mary Cameron, who was found dead near the mouth of the Water of Leith on Friday morning. ' From the evidence—which was given by Albert Beck, Andrew Smith Wilson. Geo. Fufflett, John Haydon, Mary Carter, and Sergeant Dean—it appeared that the deceased left the gaol on Wednesday last, having completed a sentence for vagrancy. On Thursday morning she went to the Hospital for medicine. Smith*, the medical dispenser, refused to supply her as Dr Tates had not prescribed, but told her to wait for a few minutes till the doctor came in. She, however, did not wait, saying that she would come back shortly. It is evident that she immediately went to Scanlan’s Rose, Thistle, and Shamrock Hotel, as the time she was at the Hospital, and 'the time she errived at the hotel, nearly correspond. The last that was seen of her was by John Haydon, proprietor of the-Star and Garter Hotel, Albany street, she having gone to that hotel about four o'clock bn Thursday afternoon, and ashed for leave to sit down and wait for the train, which was granted. While there she asked for some drink, which Mr Haydon refused, as she’had no money to pay for it. About half an hour after her arrival Mr Haydon went into the room which she sat -down in to see if she was still there, but found that she had gone. Two or three minutes previous to this he observed from a window a woman pass in the direction of Harbor Terrace, which looked like deceased. Nothing further was seen of her until fourid the following morning by Albert Beck, who observed what he thought to be a bundle about twenty yards above the Forth street bridge, on the northern side of the Leith, Two or three articles of jewellery were found upon her, and One shilling. There were some marks on the back of the head, which looked like the effects of ratsand crabs. The opinion was .that she had fallen off the bank oftherurer, a distance of about 10ft, and as the Leith is covered with large, stones about the spot where deceased was' found, had been unable to extricate herself. The jury found.a verdict of “accidental death,”