CORONER’S ACTION
INQUEST ON PEER'S EX-WIFE. ANALYSIS! OF ORGANS ORDERED. LONODN, February 25. An analysis of the organs of the stomach was ordered at the inquest to-day of Mrs Beech, formerly wife of the present Lord Inch cape. ■ As T.'nrd Glenapp, before he inherited his father’s title, Lord Inchcape divorced the dead woman in 1931. She died last Monday.
At the inquest Captain Beech;, the co-respondent in the divorce proceedings, who. subsequently married /her, gave evidence that she neither (jrapk nor took drugs, but suffered from ffiflismls of nervousness. She wa.s recently upset owing to the deal'll of her brother-in-law, who wa.s found, shot on February 4.
A doctor informed the Coroner that the woman had teem excited and .worried, for which he had treated her on February 8...
He called on her lilie next day, and found that she had taken four ounces of sal volatile. Mr-4 Beech told liim that she ’ hoped to induce sleep, and denied attempts at suicide. She was removed to a nursing home, where she died.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1933, Page 6
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