MYSTERIOUS DEATH.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1017, 9 October 1903, Page 2

MYSTERIOUS DEATH.

DOCTORS UNABLE TO ACCOUNT FOR IT. [By Telegrapn —Press Association.] Wellington, lost night. Mrs Malcolm Niccol, wife of the Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons, died suddenly yesterday, under circumstances which, in the opinion of the police, require that an inquest bo held. Later.—At an inquost on the body of Mrs Malcolm Nicol, tho first witness called was Dr Chappie, who said that he first saw deceased on September 15th, when she consulted him as to her condition, Ho told her she was enoiente. Ho saw her next day when she was quite well, certain pains she spoke of having disappeared. Witness did not see deceased again professionally, though he visited tho house to treat a boy for a brokon arm. She brought the lad to witness’s surgery on Tuesday evening, but did not speak of herself, and seemed well. Witness was summoned to deceased’s house on Wednesday evening by a Mrs Winter. He found her dead. At the-bottom of the bed waß a towel half saturated with blood. There was nothing to account for the death, and witness said there were no signs of a miscarriage. No further evidence was taken, and after counsel and the doctors who performed the post mortem had conferred, the inquiry was adjourned.