FURTHER PARTICULARS

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 23, 26 February 1884, Page 2

FURTHER PARTICULARS

THE INQUEST ' ' (PEE UNITED PKES3 ASSOCIATION.). , • Wkllington, February 2s. ■ Thomas Gordon, ohemiat, said that .Miller, the supposed husband of deceased, 1 callod at his shop on Saturday afternoon, nnrl said n friend of his had taken half a ! box of " Rough on rats," and wish© to know if such a dose would prove fatal. Witness replied " Ye«," and told Miller to go for a doctor at once. A. Pearson, a friend of M iller's, was in deceased's room just before shedied; Miller was there also. She sprang up in bed and exclaimed' to Miller, " Havo I not loved you, Willio?" Miller replied, '• Yes, my darling, I know you have." and kissed her. William Thomas Miller said he first met deceased in June last at Anekland, who was: there pianist to Kudarz and Co., travelling performers. Witness and deceased came here from Auckland under the name of Mr and Mrs r. elherington, arriving in Wellington they took their proper names. By Detective Brown — Thoy were 'not married. Miller admitted that his name had appeared in the Auckland papers :n : connection with a seduction ease ; also j that he had given her poison obtained' in ' Auckland to kill rats. The jury returned a. verdict, that deceased met her death" by poison administered by her own not believing at the time in the deidly nature of the compound. A rider was added that W. R. Milter deserves severe censure for not calling in medical aid earlier. Auckland, This Day. Olffa Stenisse, the bnrniaiti who committed suicide in Wellin^t-»n, was barmaid at the Auckland Hotel, and Lost her situation because the' publiciirt disapproved her flirting With' Miller,, who . hails from Fiji, .and , came,- here . with a considerable sum of napney." ' ' '' / .