THE NEWTOWN TRAGEDY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 777, 21 March 1905, Page 3

THE NEWTOWN TRAGEDY.

(Per Tress Association.) WELLINGTON, March 20. The adjourned inquest ore the body of Mrs Hughes, one of the victims of the Newtown tragedy, was resumed this afternoon. The coroner read a report by Professor MacLaurin to the effect that he l>ad made a very careful examination of tha stomach, hut failed to lind any trace of poison. Professor MacLaurin gajve evidence confirming has report. If antimony had been used to cause death it would have to be a large dose, and he would have been certain to lind evidence of it in the stomach. Inhalation of a laigu quantity of coal gas might cause froth and blood at the woman's uioutli, which had btren noticed and testified to by former witnesses. The Coroner said that there was no use casing more evidence. He contended that there had been no connection established between the two deaths beyond the fact that a doctor had decided that the woman had died first. There was not the slightest evidence to show that Roussell had done deceased any harm. Without discussion the jury nt timed a verdict that deceased mid Ibcen found dead, and that: there was no evidence to show how deceased came by her death.