FATAL RESULT OF "LARKING."
Mr Wynne E. Baxter held an enquiry recently at the Forester's Arms, Bromley, relative to the death of Grace Ellen Meacock, aged 27, the wife of a coffee-house keeper, which occurred under singular circumstances. George Moacock, 3GI, East India Road, Poplar, said the deceased was his wife, aud they had been married seven years. On Saturday afternoon she was making some mince meat. She had chopped the apples and was starting on the plums. He took a few of the plums, and she turned round and said, " You will eat all my plums." He replied, " Give me another one." She laughingly said, " No; if you tako another one I'll rap your fingew." Ho took another one, and she tried to get hold of his hunds, but ho turned round and she got on his back. He put tbo plum in his mouth, and while she was trying to get at his mouth he stood up straight, and her buck went through the panel of a g-lass door. He took her to the Poplar Hospital, and tho surgeon there extracted a piece of glass from under the risrht shoulder, and bandaged the wound. She was able to walk home. Tho next night she was awakened by the noise occasioned by the closing of a public-house, and became delirious, opening the window and calling , to people in the street. Ho sent for a doctor, but she died at about two o'clook in the morning. In reply to the coroner, the witness said he had his suspicious that the deceased drank, but he had never caught her at it. They lived happily together. Dr. A. Moore, East India road, said he was called to the deceased on Sunday morning, between 10 and 11 o'clock. He was informed of the injuries she had received, but he found her suffering more from nervousness than pain. He prescribed for her, and he was called again early on Monday morning. The deceased was then standing in the bedroom in a very excited atate. He got her upon the bed, and she was then taken with a fit, in which she died in his presence. The cause of death was delirium tremens, accelerated by the accident. The coroner, in summing up, remarked upon tho sad features of the case, and said cases analogous to this, where the effects of drink were brought out by an accident, often came under his notice at the hospitals. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2450, 24 March 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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421FATAL RESULT OF "LARKING." Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2450, 24 March 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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