SINGULAR FATALITY.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 134, 24 April 1880, Page 2

SINGULAR FATALITY.

A sWt t.i .1 ;o Dr. Fmhor, lit tli" New Vork ilospitul, wis willoil upon to render hia professional Hnrviccx in wlml has provnii to li" a moat vomarkahlu cast 1 , At noon on tlio ilny named, a lady called tit tlio hospital and avowed tint klui hnd j swallowed a whole sot of tooth. Sin' requested tin. 1 physician to examine her for traces of them, and sai'l blio whs Mr.«. Cora S, Noursn, ayed '!7. mi artist, who contrilmtnl skc-tchm ami article* In Hi ■ Floral Cahinet. Shn n li I i al No, :«! Wont Niuth-stroot v. itli Iter twodnwMi f

mi on Tuesday Inst visit.-! soma relatives fissud her teeth, and, being unable tofiml hem a!, iiit her room, sha car.io to tho ouclusion that during her sloop she had wallowed them, as alio remembered disiuotlv their presence in her mouth when etiriiig. A tickling sensation in her hroat scorned to corroborate this belief. Ii ssiii" ill baste, she hurried oil" to a e.-idout physician, who examined her for races of the lost molars, but he failed to hid them, lit advised her to search for li in again, assuring her if she found no ii a - > in her stomach it was not possible

that they wero located as she supposed. She impiired as to the result if her fears proved true, and was informed that if she had swallowed them the result would o, i 'aie.ly prove fatal. Alarmed at this.tho iiufortunate lady hastened to her apartment, but being unable to find her teeth, immediately boarded a train fortius city and sought for relief at the New York Hospital. She was in a considerable state of trepidation and appeared to sutler great mental anxiety. After a tin.rough examination, Dr. Fisher declared that she could not possibly have swallowed the teeth, and suggested to her the possibility of having laid them somewhere out of the way. She then became convinced that such must have been the case, mid started for her homo in Ninth-street. She had scarcely -left hospital when she suddenly dropped in the street. Some gentlemen sprang to I her assistance and carried her back tii the ; hospital insensible. I'r. Fisher was proI ceod'mg to examine her, wiien she turned on her side and expire i. A female at- ! tondant was called to undress the poor lady in order that an investigation as to the cause of her death might bo made. As the attendant wftsTomoving the 'dead lady's clothing the missing teeth Wore j discovered lodged in her undergarments. A ■- -t-morfoiii examination revealed the j curi .us fact her death bad resulted from