NAPIER.
■ • , ' . This day. A shocking death is reported at West dive, six miles from here. Early on Sunday morning a boy going out with milk found a woman lying in a ditch at the side of the road, and recognised her as Mrs O'Reilly, aged 36, a servant at the West Clive Hotel, her brother being a wheelwright in the same township. The woman was taken immediately to her brother's house, but though every effort was made to restore animation, she died in half-an-hour. ■ It appears that deceased, together with her brother and a Mrs Diamond, left the hotel the previous night at half past eight, intending to see the latter to her home, a mile down tho road ; the night was.dark and rainy, and After going a little way the deceased said she could not go further, but would wait till Hall, her brother, returned. Hall wanted to take her into a neighboring cottage, but she refused. When Hall returned he could not find her, and inferred that she had returned to the hotel, and at the hotel it was supposed that she had spent the night at Hall's, and no sus? picions were aroused. A post mortem examination will be made, and an inquest held this afternoon.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4599, 1 October 1883, Page 2
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209NAPIER. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4599, 1 October 1883, Page 2
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