ADJOURNED INQUEST.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2618, 28 August 1882, Page 3

ADJOURNED INQUEST.

At the inquest held this afternoon at the Garrick Hotel, on the body of Mary Howard, the following evidence was taken:— Alexander William Bickerton deposed that he received the stomach of deceased from Dr. Irving. He analysed the contents, but found uo result. There was but little contents of the stomach, as the child must have vomited a great deal. Witness could not find any trace of poison. He analysed a small pot containing mercury ointment, probably white precipitate, also two samples of flaur and a portion of a bullock’s heart, a bottle containing liquor, and some salt. Witness failed to find anything poisonous in either of these. The gallipot containing the white precipitate looked as though it had not been touched for a long time. Witness tested for all the vegetable poisons, also the alkaline, but found no traoe. From the statement of the symptoms witness was quite surprised at not finding any traces of poison. It might be possible that the child vomited the poison out of the stomach, leaving only that portion which was absorbed into the system. Dr. Irving, In reply to Sergeant Mason, •aid that he could not account lor the death of the ohild otherwise than by irritant poison. He was still of opinion that the girl died from an irritant poison. After some further evidence had bean takes the jury returned a verdict vo the effect that the ohild died from an irritant pqiion, but how administered there was no evidence to show.