A MYSTERIOUS CASE.
[By Teleghaph.j
Dunedin. Nov. 27.
An inquest held at Port Chalmers on Saturday revealed some extraordinary circumstances attending the death of a married woman named Mrs Anderson at Deborah Bay. On Sunday night, the 19th inst., she was walking round the bay with a young girl when a Chilian native (so the girl declares) came np to them, and without a word, struck Mrs Anderson with a piece of firewood knocking her down. The medical evidence seems to discredit the statement that the woman was struck as described, but at any rate she fell in the road and lay there till next morning, when a neighbor took her home in his dray. A peculiar feature is that her husband, among others, knew of her condition and allowed her to remain out all night. Whether she was drnnk or not on this occasion is not very, clear, but she was in the habit of drinking. The jury found that death occurred from appoplexy, accelerated by intoxication and exposure, and no notice was taken of the statement about the assault by the Chilian.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3016, 27 November 1882, Page 2
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184A MYSTERIOUS CASE. South Canterbury Times, Issue 3016, 27 November 1882, Page 2
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