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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 44, 10 April 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY. The Ballymena Observer contains a notice of an extraordinary and painful ca se — the particulars of which include the alleged violation and poisoning of a yuung lady at Ballymena. The young lady, Miss Amelia S. Gary, was IS years of age, of great personal attractions and most respectable family connections, and died on the 2nd instant, at Gracehil!, near Ballymena, af'er an illness of fourteen days. The body waa interred, but, in consequence of rumors of ill-treatment, was exhumed, and a post mortem examination made. An inquest was held at Ballymena, and a woman, nanwd Mary Ann M'Atamney, a domestic servant in the employment of Dr Courtenay, a medical officer of the Galgorm Dispensary, was brought before the court in custody of the police. Dr Arthur lloss and Dr Black, surgeons at Ballymena, agreed that, at the post mortem examination,' they discovered all the organs of the body to be perfectly healthy, except the stomach, which was discolored, and evidently in a state of mortification, the result of previous inflammation. They believed these appearances was occasioned by some irritant mineral or vegetable poison. There were no external marks of violence on deceased's body 'except cupping; but though deceased was not pregnant, there wa> evidence that improper liberties had been taken with her, with or without her consent. The other evidence appeared to inculpate Dr Courtenay, who had been medical attendant of the deceased, and his servant, the latter being in custody, as above stated. Mrs Cary, deceased's mother; Mrs Smith, her sister; Dr Kidd, and a number of other witnesses, were Galled to prove that during her illness deceased suffered great pain in her stomach, which Dr Courtenay ascribed to poison ; that she expressed • great abhorrence of Dr Courtenay, and used expressions intimating that he had j outraged her, but without describing . time and place ; that she said he had ; given her medicine which had done her "no good/ and the prisoner had .- brought it to her. Deceased was perfectly l sane when she used these expressions. >' Deceased's mother, however, said that - all the medicine had passed through: her own hands, and Dr Kidd was in'a& tendance on deceased as well as D> Courtenay, while deceased's sisters, th< servants, and others were one or mor in the room during the whole illnp«v The inquiry was adjourned thr an anai> sis of the stomach mig' be made, and the prisoner was remove in custody. The Northern Whig of t\ JGth says: -"It ia stated that J?. Courtenay, whose name was -proa nently mentioned at the late iuqu has been arrested, awaiting the re. of the adjourned coroner's inqu Which will be held as soon as Dr Mod completes his analysis of the cont of the stomach of the unfortunate ceased woman. '

Novel * Race. — Yesterday^ : af ternooj rather novel running match came off at I fornia Gully, between Air Collie, a ti> \ merchant, residing in that neighborhood Mr Alexander, of the White Horse Jj. Mr Collie, for a wager of £5, backed lir , > to run fifty yards, carrying a man | - , back, against his runnif . hundred yards in the same time.' M£ ; J J tookhis load, a man weighing eigl ST-—. and a ha'f, while the other divested^ f - - i ot superfluous clotKtng, and at a gi^ r ; } they started. The encuuibered ma« . about twelve yards'., A>large n\> r , > r persons were present to,skthcrar |i diffo Adverlitar, March il. /— J r