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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 305, 17 May 1913, Page 5

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'DOMESTIC-/TRAGEDY. 'PECULIAR EVIDENCE. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Received 10, 0.45 p.m. Melbourne, May 16. Peculiar evidence was tendered at the inquest on the wife of George Samuel <Capeness, a commercial traveller. i. Capeness testified that he resided at ' : Oxford Chambers. At 5 o'clock in the morning he was informed by the caretaker that his wife had fallen out of a window. Witness asked his wife what had happened, and she replied that she did not know. Witness and his wife ■ occupied the same: room. He' last spoke to her at 10.15 on the previous night. Witness and his wife were not very happy, owing to his attachment to a young girl. His wife was a sleep- ■ walker. He believed that that caused her death. His wife often requested him 'to give the girl up.' He tried to, but 'found the attraction too great. The • girl accompanied Witness and his wife, at his wife's request, on a holiday to "Tasmania' last Christmas. "The caretaker (Normand) of the Chambers testified that he heard a scuffle, and 'then someone running away. He heard a tremendous scream a few moments later. His wife also heard it. He then heard a fall, and went downstairs and 'found that the woman had been carried into the basement'by a constable. The noise of scuffling lasted about five minutes. He heard- no voices. An attempt to open the window would not explain ; the sound which he'took for scuffling. 'He admitted that his hearing was not too good, owing to ear trouble.' He slept on the third floor, some distanme from Oxford Chambers—about 35 feet. The medical evidence was that there were no signs of injuries that could not have been caused by a fall. The inquest was adjourned.