SUDDEN DEATH AT CAMBBIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2134, 13 March 1886, Page 2

SUDDEN DEATH AT CAMBBIDGE.

A shocking case of sudden death occurred in Cambridge on Wednesday night. Mrs Catherine Gernuiell, the wife of Thomas Gemmell, blacksmith, was discovered dead on her bed at about ten o'clock in the evening. She had appeared wall during the day, going about in her usual state of health, and made no complaints of feeling unwell. Her husband had last seen her alive when he went in for dinner. He had been about the town after his day's work was over, and when he went home he was told she was lying down iv the bedroom. He went in and found her lying on her dido, face downward, quite dead. One of her daughters, a girl of 14, who seems to hay c waited on her mother, saw her in the bedroom at about nine o'clock, and the deceased asked her to pi ty a tune on the piano, which she did. The child left her a Suarter of an hour latsi', g"ing down into lo kitchen, and shortly after that Mr Gemmell came in and, as we have said, found his wife dead. The deceased was of a somewhat excitable temperament, and had often complained of pains iv the head, and it was Dr Cushny's opinion that death was caused by a sudden rush of blood to the cerebral organs, which was borne out by the very discoloured appearance of tho corpse.