A GIRL'S DEATH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 112, 1 November 1911, Page 5

A GIRL'S DEATH.

ADJOURNED • INQUEST. \ By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Christchurch, Last Night." On October 10 an inquest was held in Christchurch on the body of a sixteen-year-old girl named Daisy Florence Turner, and at the inquest statements were made by Dr. Edward Jennings, which suggested a possibility that the girls' death was not entirely accidental. Toft.--.* adjournment of the inquest was an. Un- " ' •ejected development, and sensational rumors were in circulation for some days concerning the girl's death. The published statement that the police were making enquiries satisfied the public curiosity for the time, being, but during the past day or two the question has been frequently asked as to when the inquest was to be resumed, and whether any further light ,had beeH thrown on the tragedy. Beyond the promise that the newspapers would receive due notice of the date of the resumption of the inquest, no information was given them by the police authorities, but mi enquiry made by a reporter elicited the fact that the 'inquest had been concluded, as stated, on October 23. and that the death of the girl had' been dulv registered. The evidence of Dr. W. 11. Symes, who made :\ microscopical examination of the girl's clothing, pointed directly/ to the fact that deceased had been improperly intimate with a man some time previous to her decease, but exactly how much prior the witness was unable to state. This concluded the evidence, and the coroner returned a verdict of accidental death.