A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11, 17 May 1913, Page 5

A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] Melbourne, May 16. Peculiar evidence was tendered at the inquest on the wife of George Samuel Capeness, a commercial traveller. Capeness testified that ho resided at Oxford Chambers. Ac 5 o'clock in the morning lie was informed by the caretaker that his wife had fallen out of a window. Witness asked his wife what had happened, and sho replied that she did not know. Witness and his wife occupied the same room. He last spoke to her at 10.15 on the previous night. Witness and his wife were not very happy, owing to his attachment to a young girl. His wife was a sleep-walker. He believed that that caused her death. His wife often requested him to give the girl up. Flo tried to, but found the attraction too great. The girl accompanied witness and his wife, at his wife’s request, on a holiday to Tasmania last Christmas.

The caretaker (Norraand) of the Chambers testified that ho heard a muffle, and then someone running away. He heard a tremendous scream x few moments later. His wife also ueard it. He then heard a fall, and went downstairs .and found that the woman had been carried into the basement by a constable. The noise of scuffling lasted about five minutes. He heard no voices. An attempt to open the window would'not explain the sound which he took for scuffling. Ho admitted that his hearing was not too good, owing to ear trouble. He slept on the third floor, some distance from Oxford Chambers —about 35 feet. The medical evidence was that there were no signs of injuries that could not have been caused by a fall. The inquest was adjourned.