INQUEST.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3318, 9 August 1879, Page 2

INQUEST.

An inquest ori^:the body- of Sarah Bodep, was held ait the Bridge hotel at Ify^'-gwisfcl to-day, before;, Dr jDilgour;, Coroneri and a jury of whom Mr Stilwell was chosen foreman. C -Mr Kenny was present on behalf of the , -..; oitj n^u:':: li> . i '•• .■.;'>• - '] r After the jury had viewed the" body the following evidence was taken. j ad 'Samuel Boden, husband of the deceased t deposed—On Thursday night last" imy wife andrl went to the*-Good Templar rHall,. and home about eleven o'clock, j^hen : deceased; went tor bed ish'e saidshiß felt first-ratej all the wheezing ;had:gone from her chest. L I'remarked; when she bad got cold;-I Uook'^ her a cup of tea and some toast feefore' I went to work. She then seemed pretty well. I went to work at 8 o'clock, and on re-, turning at 12 she was not in the house,, and everything was as I had left it. I shouted bul got no reply. I went to the closet arid there found her lying dead and quite cold. Deceased had been in bad health for the, past two years, but no medical man treated her till within the last month, when she was attended by Dr Andrews. She complained of shortness of breath, and a feeling of heat at the* heart. She was always able to go about the house. ' j . '■j John Johnson pave evidence concerning thefinding of- the body. Deceased and her husband always lived on good terms with each other. " „ Dr Andrews deposed that he had attended the deceased from July 10th to ,the 17th. She was suffering from chronic. | bronchitis and weak heart action. He,last saw her alive on the 2nd August, and on 1 examining her, found the lungs much improved, but no change in the action of | the heart. From the condition of her I heart her life was precarious. ; Dr Gilbert deposed to making a postmortem examination of the body of deceased. Found fatty degeneration of the heart, and extensive disease of the kidney and the lungs. Death resulted from disease of the heart.

The jury at once returned a verdict " That the jury is of opinion that deceased died from disease of the heart." 1 ' ■-■ ■ ■• '■■■"■ -■•■■■■■■■ •• •; ■ ■ .