ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
DEATH FROM EXPOSURE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin. Jan. 17. Catherine Macdonald, aged 45 years, who escaped from hospital a week ago, was found early in the morning at the foot of an embankment on Queen’s Drive. She was still alive when found, but died from exposure before the doctor arrived. Later. The full name of the woman found dead this morning is Catherine Susan Macdonald, married and living apart from her husband. Evidence at the inquest showed that she had had influenza and suffered from depression. Though rational, deceased left the Dunedin hospital in the night, and from early morning on the 4th inst. no trace could be found till now. About four months i ago she went into the bush when her I child was taken from her and she suffered ill-health since. The medical evidence showed that death was due to starvation, inanition and exposure, accelerated by a fall. The inquest ww adjourMd.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 January 1922, Page 2
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158ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, 18 January 1922, Page 2
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