THE DUNEDIN SENSATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81854, 29 September 1906, Page 2

THE DUNEDIN SENSATION.

INQUEST ON MARGARET KENDRICK. VERDICT AGAINST lIAYNE. Per Press Association. jJimedin, September 28. The inquest touching- the cleath of Margaret lvendrick, 35 years of ago, who died in the hospital as the result of an illegal operation, was resumed to-day. The evidence of the cabman who drove the deceased to the house where she resided for sonic days, and then drove her home, and ot the woman who kept the boardinghouse where deceased stayed) and a servant, was taken. Then the woman's dying depositions were read. These were to the effect that she had been in trouble two months. She went to the shop of J. R. Hayno, and he arranged she should call on the following day. She did so, when lie took her into a room at the back of the shop, put h c r on a sort of table affair, and used an instrument. She had a bad turn, and he got a younglady to take her away. She had to pay the money, £25, beforehand. She got the money from Mr Goudie on the same day. The remainder of the depositions dealt with the subsequent movements of deceased. The Coroner, in summing up, said bey "lid the statement by the dyingwoman, there was no evidence as to who actually performed the illegal operation. It was not for him to say whether such uncorroborated evidence was sufficient to secure the conviction of a person tried for the offence.

The jury returned the following verdict, "That Margaret Kendrick (lied of peritonitis, caused by an illegal operation performed by James Reynolds Hayne."