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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 51, 4 March 1864, Page 5

think, there was.by, fire iii the fireplace ill the pat-, lotir during tfa'e tini? they were there: . : •;.» Ipx Murray; had examined the remains of ;' the deceased vvopien. sSftMdsie'Jisk^ §Pdi"es : wete reduice4 n tO;.sliapele 1 s8 j niassk?— the cause of death was evidently combustion^ Sergeant Morton deposed, that on the morning of Tuesday, about 9 .o'clock, -he 'examined <: the; rufns of the Excelsior .Hotel,; forithe purpose of .discovering .the,! bodies of the iemales^ V posed to have been burned. ■ -He found the todies, and had, them Tehioved to the : Royal Hotel^ and subsequently to the' Police Court. '.' ;v:v, Edwin John Lupton deposed) that he had feeli employed in the bowlitig saloon of the Excelsior Jlbtel, in settiHgYip the pvik Alpput half jpast twelve oii Monday night,. lie put the 1 ligli^ont ijij: the alley which lie liad;<;Harge.of.^lie rem&ned;iit;tlie alley for. soi?eiittle 7 iSne afteWardiS' WlienJlieUeff|tlie alley (l^*asnbtf;i*h£]^ or two lights l)\miing^|tli^end > -nexti ith^lwi/^He^left Sti; Ha.ll/air 4mntoS.»^ He iliil iibi sleep in 'the! 7 ;;3by*-- u Hfe ; %new'*'nothing of fire until next morning;.. _ .-.-,., y-.-y-, „ DavidCPlayer,|[w-Hotavas also? %mpjoyed setting up the pins' in tlie sal&bri, '^ve\' borroborative evidence as to the extinguishing of, the lights .in, the alleys when he left the saloon. All the lights -were put out with the exception of the bracket lamps at the end nearest the bar. The Coroner stated to the Jury that it would be necessary to adjourn the inquiry at this stage, as thfere was still the evidence of the . most liii^ortarit witness to be addticed,, viz., that of Mf ifeill; He: •was, however, in the Hospital, and a*t that time so . ill and in such a state of mental excitement,] that he could np*t give hlVpvidence. tie libought it would be about a week of ten days before lie wis in a condition to do so^ He -would jgive^each of the jurors an intimation when the inquiry would be resumed. The inquest was then. adjourned sine die.