RELIGIOUS BUMPS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3358, 26 October 1911, Page 8

RELIGIOUS BUMPS.

OLD MAX’S CURIOUS FANCY WITH REGARD TO HIS WIFE’S DEATH.

A suggestion that religious people always have curious bumps cn tiheir beads was the feature of an inquest held at Hackney last month on Eliza Gocdbody, sixty-nine, of Eleanor Road, Hackuev. T! e husband said bis wife was quite well on August 18th* she getting up to get- him a cup of ten. lie then tucked her up in bed. kissed her, and went off to work. On his return in- the evening, the found her unconscious. She was removed to the infirmary, where she remained unconscious for twe ve days, dying on the 30th. Dr Cowell: stated that death was due to hemorrhage on the brain. The husband said there was one thing he wished particularly to draw the coroner’s attention to. When he married deceased thirty-nine years ago- she was an extremely religious woman- On her forehead were two bumps the size of his fingers, and these had been gradually decreasing. ‘‘And do you wish to suggest that that had anything to do with the clcit.U.?” asked the coroner, “Well, I don’t- know, it’ K . rather curious that they’ve gone, and now she’s dead,” was the reply. The cornier questioned the doctor on the subject, -and the latter gaid there was nothing in it. “Begging your pardon, sir,” persisted Gocdbody, “but there is no doubt you in your vast experience must have s-ecvii those very religious people, and they have humps on the head which they call religious humps.” A son of the deceased said lie. had never -noticed that his mother was extra- religion g. “Perhaps it- is tlio old chap’s fancy,” suggested the coroner. “Yes. I think so,” agreed the sen, “-and it is excusable- under the circumstances.” The jury returned verdict of “Death from natural causes,”