INQUEST AT TEMUKA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1763, 14 July 1888, Page 3

INQUEST AT TEMUKA.

An inquest Was held at the Temuka Courthouse, yesterday, before C. *■ Wray, Esq., District Coroner, touching the death of Isabella Morton. The following jury were empanelled: —Messrs K. F. Gray, Jas, Winning, Ws Storey, C. Williams, E. H. Brewer, and J. Philipson. Mr K. F. Gray was chosen foreman. John Shaw Hayes, a duly qualified medical practitioner residing and practising at' Temuka, said: 1 attended the deceased ou several different occasions during the: last three years. She was of a delicate constitution, and suffered from anaemia or. thin blood. I was called to see her yesterday on arrival of the express from Christchurch. I found her in the waiting room at the railway station. Life was then extinct. I saw nothing to lead me to suppose that aha died from other than natural causes. I have treated her for severe Vomiting, and also for an attack of 'pleurisy. She had nc heart disease. I think it probable that her death was caused by an “embolism, that is, where a clot of blood becomes detached in circulation and causes death through embarrassment of some important organ, such as heart, brain, or lungs. I believe death to have "OCburred from natural causes. ! t r The'Corpner intimated that if the. jury vrere satisfied with the medical would be no necessity •for % post .mortem. It would he inexpressibly painful to the parents, but .if i they considered it necessary it -would be done. ... ; - The Forman said the jury did not think there was any occasion for it. .The evidence was then proceeded j%, Eobertsoh, farmer, Eangitata Island, said: I was acquainted with ■the deceased, who was boarding at my ■housOi for the past three weeks. She was in her Usual health until Wednesday last At about half-past two m .the aftemooh she retired to her bed.roipm and commenced vomiting. Mrs Robertson went and stopped with her. I saw her on the following day. In Consequence of what my wife told me, I drove deceased to the Eangitata Siding, and accompanied her in the ’’ f fmrSi : to Temuka. She didwot ' complain. In . the train at Win--ehester, I asked her if she felt any pain. She said, “No.” I noticed on Temuka that she lookpd bad. ; T'saw her drink some milk and water "several times while on the journey. She vomited once or twice. When we got near Temuka I thought she was dying from the color of her face and eyes. On arrival at Temuka I Could not get her to move. Her father came into the carnage. He carried her out. She was then in a dyuSe condition. Deceased was mistress of a school about two miles . distant -from my house, c: Grainger, wife of Henry Grainger,Eangitata Island, said: I knew the deceased. On Wednesday Afternoon I went across to Mrs , Robertson, and found deceased mbed. She was remitting, and appeared very 31. We applied hot bottles to her vieet, and hot flannels to her body. The treatment gave her relief. She ' was verv sick again about 12 o clock. Fr«n>med with h.r ,11 night She was craving to be sent home. I went with her in the train to Temuka. She did not complain, but wished for something to drink. I gave her some iulk and water. She got worse when we were neariag Temuka. She said if she got a glass of wine at the station she would he able to walk home ’ to her mother. On arrival at Temuka her father was awaiting her. She in my arms until her father took her away. When her father spoke to her she opened her eyes, but did not ’speak. She was carried to the wait iug room. She vomited several times ‘ train. The worst time was when nearing Temuka. She appeared to got-cold. John Morton, constable in charge qf Jetauka station, said: The deceased, Isabella " Morton, was my daughter. - She would have been 21 next Oc--1 tober. She has been suffering for the .past three years from loss of appetite 1 and weakness. She had attacks of retching that required medical attendance/ She had taken a holiday from last January to recruit her • health. I received a telegram at 20 mitmtes f td 12 on Thursday saying that she'was coming home, and I was to have. a buggy in waiting at the On arrival of the tram I '.eplfred the compartment she. ’was in. f rWas . lying in Mrs Grainger’s -Armij, and could see that she was '-dying. When I spoke to her she ■•lrinndwivored to respond. I carried her jatp' the waiting room* where she breathed her last. She did not speak. Dr Hayes was in attendance about ‘ : 4ve minutbS afterwards. He pro- , . nounced life to be extinct. . This completed the evidence. ! The jury returned a verdict of “Death from natural causes,” and wWf then thanked by tjie Coroner for, their attendance afid dismissed.

At the Dunedin City Police Court on Thursday Joseph Lemmer was fined £3O •nd edits on two charges of sly grop sellinf.or eix weeks'imprisonment Captain Green, of the ketch Clematis, iM the trousers found near tin ' discovered three w«ke »go ai Brighton, near Christchurch, are tMisPto those worn' by Mathews/ who mw drowned when the ketcl. vy >s branded olbf> same pjicp a year ago. He also jfjijpks that Matthews » Of P hoots like found da the legs,