A DUNEDIN MYSTERY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8125, 2 June 1906, Page 2

A DUNEDIN MYSTERY.

FEB PEEBB ASSOCIATION, Duwbdin, June 1. At the inquest touching the death of Kathleen Mathewson, the jury returned a verdict that the cause of death was septicemia, the result of an illegal operation, but by whom performed there was not sufficient evidence to show. The jury also expressed re gret that tho police had not been informed by the doctor or nurse ef the cironmstances of the case immediately after examination had proved an illegal operation had been performed. The mystery in conneotion with the man who had called at the house of tho nurse while the girl was ill, was not solved. Three young men who had been casual acquaintances of deceased, and from one of whom she tried to borrow money, were examined, but the nurse said neither of them was the man who called. Edwin Vivan, one of these young men, was re-examin-e 1 at his own request with tho object of showing that he was not the girl's lover. He said she had made appointments by telephone on thirteen occasions, and failed to keep ten 'of Ihem, Ho had met her accidentally seven times and saw her home five times. On two of the occasions on which she failed to keep her appointment, he Isaw her in the street with a young man.