THE AUCKLAND POISONING CASE.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2628, 8 September 1882, Page 3

THE AUCKLAND POISONING CASE.

[EBBBS ASIOOIATIOS TKLBSBAM. J

AUCKLAND, September 7.

The adjourned inquiry into the circumstances oonnected with the death of Mrs Sarah Emily Oleaver (Johnstone), waa held to-day before Dr. G-oldsborough. Superintendent Thomson examined the witnesses. There were only three. The first was Thomas Oleaver, the husband of the deoeased. The chief points in his evidence were that it was on his own free will he had married deceased, and that he had offered to marry her before the birth of her child j that he had come to Auckland to provide a house for her, and that after she oame to town to be married, and before he knew she was in danger, he had procured a license certificate and a wedding ring. His sister-in-law, Mrn Eobert Oleaver, corroborated his testimony as to what ooourred from the time of the arrival of the deoeased in Auckland up to the time of her death, more especially what took place on the evening after her arrival. Deceased had tea at Mrs Buller's, and went for a walk and had tea for svpper. At the first meal Oleaver was not present, and at supper Mrs Robert Oleaver and Barren?; girl, Bose Karl, joined in having tea with the deceased, and were the only persons who had sapper with her. Bose Earl, a young girl in Mrs Butler's servioe, and at whose house deceased stayed after her arrival, generally corroborated the evidence, bat there was a noticeable point elicited. It appears when she went into the bedroom about midday, to empty the slops, the deoeased was in bed. She asked her if she was about to empty them, and on the girl replying affirmatively, took from under her pillow a pieoe of thin soft white paper, ab: mt five inches square, which she tore aad threw in the wash basin. This was thrown with the slops in the yard, and pieces remained about for days. She remarked to Mrs Butler that she thought it was a Seidlitz powder, but she denied ever having said she thought it contained rat poison. The inquest adjourned till tomorrow.