DEATH IN A TEA ROOM.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17283, 26 September 1916, Page 9

DEATH IN A TEA ROOM.

DUE TO PULMONARY V HEMORRHAGE. At the City Morgue, "yesterday, Mr H. W. Bishop,. District Coroner, held an inquest into the circumstances attending the death of Edith _Horne, who died suddenly rfu a tea 'raom in Armagh Strjeet on the previous-day. Kmily Smith, keeper of- : a,-'-tea and fruit shop in Armagh Street,;' stated that at about one o'ejock oh Sunday afternoor the woman came to -her " place for refreshment. Witness served her with tea and loft the room.- -Shortly afterwards witness heard strange sounds. The woman screatned and on going to tho room witness saw.her on the floor. She was bleeding profusely at : the mouth. called lor >dsistanco and a constable came. The woman died almost at once. '■'V '/■

Constable Steers, who answered the call of tho previous .'witness, said that the woman died within a minute or two of his arrival. ' , , Constable . Thomas , William Sheehan said he bad identified the'body as that of Edith Horne. She would be about thirty years of age. Sho had recently come from Wellington; ;,f . The Coroner recorded a v ve?dict ,pl| death from pulmonary hemorrhage.