FROM BED TO POND.
That she was found drowned, having entered the water in her sleep, was tb.t verdict returned at the inquest at Brockham, (England), on Mrs. Eleanor Mackrcll, aged 43. The husband, Henry Robert Mackrcll, a lime burner, stated that he invoke iu the morning and found his wife missing. Her body was found in a pond. A doctor said he could not find that the woman struggled or attempted to breathe after entering the water. His opinion was that she walked in her sleep from the house and became unconscious through the shock of immersion. Before her marriage the woman was a domestic servant, and he understood that on one occasion she left her bed while asleep, cleaned np the nursery and got into bed again.
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 164, 23 December 1926, Page 8
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129FROM BED TO POND. Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 164, 23 December 1926, Page 8
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