THE LATE INQUEST.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3233, 30 June 1879, Page 2

THE LATE INQUEST.

; (To the Editor of the EvWin<J S*AB.) ; Sib,—Kindly give insertion in to-night's iasue of the following, re testimony given »t the late inquett:— ' . Dr. Paynb states :,.-.; Dr. KuiOodrbtatks: His own opinion was Judging from appearrthat instruments ought, to ances he should have iu'have been used, aud the ducedlaber. Bethought )child delivered. it would have been better „, „ • • ! ' '■'''" practice to have'delivered i the .child, or to havo atl"' j "temptedit.

I' He thought the fatal ■, He judged it wbujd have termination was hastened been, wiser to have allowed .by a!lowing deceased to Mrs'Craig to retain the a'surne an erect posture, horizontal position. >><■; \ .) . . He thousht it -- • - unwise, in the extreme, to move the deceased from the bed under the circumstances. , He „. attributed / •?; her death to this. •■,-:..••. r.■■<..'..

Hfe should not have left If he thought it necesfroni time to t'me. sary to attempt an imme- ! diato delivery, he thouid 1 not have left the patient i till she was safe. From j what he saw at the postS mortem there was no ana- , , ; tomical reason to prevent Pi ' delivery.

From enquiries made by me, I think it only due to Dr. Payne, who has been accused of personal feel|ng and professioiial jealousy, to state that he had no action whatever, directly or indirectly, m bringiilpabont an inquest, and expressed to ihe his reluctance to have anything to do in the matter.—Yours, &c, ! „ JOSEFHU3 CBAIG.

I (To the Editor of the Evening Star.) ' Ska,—Mow me to Inform* your readers that the jury at the |ate s jnqttert;«roinp^ nor iwere they aver;"of the same opinion; at Expressed ; in= the. verdict, and/ qdlji signed the game under a, wrong impression conveyed to them by the Qproner^ Had the Coroner told us that f twilve must all be of the »ame opinion, Inhere would not hare been a Verdict ft all.—l am, <fcc, AJtraoß.