The Dunedin Sensation.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 15, 17 July 1896, Page 2

The Dunedin Sensation.

TEE INQUEST CONTINUED. fPer P.?esß Association) Dunkdin, July 16. The inquest tc>ucbing tlie death otMary Mateon, whose body was found in « lagoon near Pomahaka River on 6th inst., was continued to-day. Sixteen witnesses were examined including two doctors. The taking of evidence concluded at 5.80, when an adjournment was made to tbe evening. Dr Niccoil said that on the left aide of \ the head he found an oval shaped wound i about an inch king and a half to three- '■ quarters of an inch broad. The bone was exposed and edges oi the wound were ? slightly ragged. There was also a star- c shaped wound over the right temple. In his opinion the first wound was produced y during life. It was produced by a blunt < instrument used with a large amount of violence, and was sufficient to cause < death. Tbe skull was slightly indented, { not fractured. He was unable to say whether drowning or suffocation was the cause of death- Tha condition of the < wound made him think the woman died < of slow procesH such as drowning rather 1 than the wound. He did not think the < woman was killed by an instrument and then thrown into the river. ] Dr Sutherland, who also assisted at the post mortem, said it was possible the woman died of wounds, but it was improbable. < Wm. Brown, a rope expert, gave cvi- ■ dence that the ropes found tied round the body were similar in every respect to th» rope found tied round Matson's plough. Later At the inquest on the woman Mary Matson the jury after two hours' absence returned with a verdict that they were unanimous that Mary Matson came to her death by caurder. Two thirds of the jury find that Carl Matson is guilty of murder.