SAD DEATH AT THE GAOL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 23, 28 January 1903, Page 2

SAD DEATH AT THE GAOL.

FEMALE PRISONER ON REMAND BXi PIKES. The woman Jane Jlu'lin, who was | rsmanded on Monday for a week to ! undergo medical observation as to the | state of her mental health, • died sud- | de. ly on Tuesday morning at the gaol. j It seems that deceased was allright at ' 6.30, but at 7.30 she was found to be I dead. She had partly eaten her break- | fast. The woman, who was apparently . be.iwesn 45 and 50 years of age,a>rivd fiom the north by the Takapuoa en | Thursday morning, and since tbeu till ' she was locked up on Saturday she h id ' been wandering about the town slenp- ! icg a"; night where sha could obtain J shelter. She told people that she came : from Waihi, and that her mother was j a Mrs Sutherland, an old age peasionvr, i who resided at Drury ia the Auckland ( dis'ric'. j Abtof luggage and a sewing mi-j cbiof, addrsssed to Mrs H. Mullen, '■ Whingaruomona,lus waitiug an owner at the railway s'ation, and «s this was discharged from the Takipuna last Thursday morning it is inferred that it mighi have b<?en the property of deceased, as the n*me she gave is so similar to the name in which the goods vr? re booked. Dr MuCleland, the Gaol Surgeoa, saw the woman on Monday, but did Dot anticipate such a sudden demise. Sergemt Haddrell further informs us that ki has reason to believe thit the unfortunate woman's buabind resides at Wbangamomoca, as a man of the nuine of Molten resides there, and on communiciting with him yes erday afton.o n ho s'atcd he was expecting his wife from Auckland, but had hid no i.ews of he r hiving l t f.; Auckland. This may have been flue to a letter ; < ; a\in-,' mirifiarried or, if the drc nsed is (his wift», to hor peculiar condition. Mr iMoilenwas to leave Whingauiomcna yest<rday, *>nd would travel all night in j tho hope of catching the train at Tuko ' fur New Plymouth this morning. Ths wholo case appears a very sad one. An j inquest will bo held this morning at the 'Courthouse at 11,30.