INQUEST.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3230, 26 June 1879, Page 2

INQUEST.

i A. Coroner's inquiry into sf-he ifircumstances connected with the death of Mn Elizabeth Ann Graig, of the Hape Creek, was held this afternoon at the Hape Hotel before; Mr €k^ Bnuwey (©Kroner) and a respectable Jury, of whom Mr Wnri Deeble was -chosen Fpreihanp). Dr. .Andrews, sworn, deposed—l was callM' to 1 ' setf iW rdecieased■J|»i(t^M3ndiy. I found her lying, in bed, deluged with blood. He Stopped Mtm h^nMWr two liourp,.and succeeded in stopping the flow of blood: 'He visited her again at 4 o'clock, when she was doing fairly. All symptoms of labor had disappeared. He left about five o'clock but-Tekurned .and remained till night m hopes that the confinement would come cffi» ]ie r|Jxised the notse; to; make her,,comfortabl^w^ifh she did. ,• He held> tUe women wfcilo this was being.. done. ' He then ptat her ( 4owni, on f |He ,bed, r ,a,ad,. s|i9 die» in ' twn miriut6s. vi> Sh'6 tlteaD fromN hemorrhage 5 of;;r the,*; t wornS, Peath would not jhatre; taken place if a medical man Uad.ibeen; palled in a^ f §rft,i; r rE[« sent for Dr Kilgpnr, bnt thrbujgh,.,)^it')ing a wrong message'he did not come.. ,JJarcould not use instruments, as rtne.^'inguth of the womb> was too small to raSmit thevforcepsi. '/s'i As spefn ii thelblood Stopped; there was not much danger. The blood, had stoped flowing when she was taken off the bed; which was hot at all injudicioas. He had a practice of 24 years in midwifery, and had four similar cases since h& had com? ;tQ tip fFhames, andr all; of wjiom, had>^Wfi4 «»f©. ;He? would swear: that w^Srjjmpossible to removei the ehila'by. any surgical operation, AU^ her organs were sound, kegave tier at first tincture of largotj which stopped the flow of blood at once. He would swear that he had not 'taken alcoholic liquors before he trended Mrs Craig. j^j. By the Foreman—Whin he first attended Mrs Craigiie did not consider the case dangerous, as he had succeeded in staunching the flow of blood. He was in hopb*' when lie returoeiV tha third time that the labour would come off. [Left Sitting.]