FATAL RESULT OF LARKING.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1718, 31 March 1888, Page 1

FATAL RESULT OF LARKING.

Mr Baxt«s held an inquest at the Forester's Arms, St. Leonard's road, Bromley, relative to the death of Grace Ellen- Meacoek, aged 27, the wife of a coffee-house keeper, which occurred under singular circumstances one sTonday recently. Geo. Meacoek, 361 East India road, Poplar, said the deceased was his wife, and they had been married seven years. On Saturday afternoon she was- making some mince-meat. She had chopped the apples and was starting on the plums. He took a few of the plums, and she turned round and said, "You will eat all my plums." He replied, " Giye me another one." She, laughingly, said, '"" No; if you take another one I'll rap your fingers." He took another one, and she tried to get hold of his hands, but he turned round, and she got on his back. He put the plum in his mouth, and while she was trying ( to get at his mouth he stood up straight, and her back went through the paW of a glass door. ITe took her to the Poplar Hospital, and the surgeon there extracted a piece of glass from under the right shoulder, and bandaged the wound. She was able to walk home. The next night she became delirious and died. Dr j A. Moore, East India road, said the j cause of death was delirium tremens, I accelerated by the accident. The jury jury returned a verdict in accordance I with the medical evidence.