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gradually got worse, and os sho never recovered speech he ordered her removal to the Hospital. On the first visit to deoeosed •t her homo the husband behaved In a most thoughtless manner. Albert Samuel Tren Rove, baker, said ho was at Cole ■ house at 10.4S on Wednesday morning. The boy was •creaming at tho doorway. He went into the parlour and saw Mrs. Cole on the floor.He called In some of the neighbour*. .Cole was in the bedroom, sittting on the side of the bed. Ha told him his wife was ill, and asked him what was to be done. He carno out and aent bis boy for a doctor. Cole appeared to be the worse for liquor. Jane Dodd, married womao, living in Roper-street, nest door to the Colea, said that deceased and her husband had lived comfortably together nntil tho lost few days, when quarrels had been heard in their house.On Jonusry 29 Mrs. Colo and her sister were calling Ole a drunken beast and vagabond, but deoetecd had always given her husband tho best of characters. Cole had been drinking heavily lately. Dr. Poulton. senior House Surgeon at the Adelaide Hospital, said deceased was admitted about 2 p.m. on February 4. She wa* in a atato of senl-conaciousnese. She was !'»rtial|y paralyzed on tho right side. She suffered from a convulsive fit shortly after admission, and a aeries of them durirg the evening and night Deceased never regained full consciousness, and died at 2 am. on February 5. He made a poet-mortem examination of the bodv. The causo of death was an effusion of fluid in the brain membranes. Elizabeth Aries, of Wakefield- street, said she took deceased to her house, and while there she fell down In a tit and received the black eye by thl• means. Jane Clark, mother of deceased, said her daughter bad often complained of her husband’s illuaage. Jonah Colo,8 years of age, son of tho deceased, said he had seen his father beat his mother with his lists and a ralor.On one occasion he made her noee bleed.On tho morning when tho doctor saw her aha had been beaten. The Jury returned a verdict in accordance with tho mediosd evi-denoe, and added that there was no evidence to show how the marks on the body of the deceased were caused. At tho request of tho Jury the Coroner severely cenaurod Cole for his inhuman conduct towards his wife.SUDDEN DEATH.At tho Sir John Barleycorn Hotel on Monday morning the City Coroner hold an enquiry into tho cause of death of James Cole, who died suddenly on Saturday ©vomng when being couvcyed to tho Adotaido Hospital. Mr. H. L. Whittell watched tho proceedings on behalf of friends of deceased. Thu evidence showed that the deceased was charged at tho Police Court with drunkon-ness and rcmauded. He afterwards attended tho Inquest ou hit wlfo at tho Hospital.Ho wns taken back to tho Watchhouse and put in a cell, and had blankets suppliod him, as he expressed a desire to sleep. About a quarter to 6 a constable heard a noise in the oetl, and on .going in saw the man gasping for breath in a fit. lie was Immediately sent to the Hospital. Dr. Jay mode a post-mortom examination of the body, He found the lower half of both lungs loaded with blood, and the sir-oells tilled with blood and frothy ;mucus. The heart was 3 or 4 oz. over the ,normal weight, walls thin, and showing signs of commencing fatty degeneration. Attached to the main right .valve there was an ante-mortem clot ol blood. The liver won much enlarged, weighing 82 oz., in a very advanced state of fatty degeneration. The stomach and kidneys showed signs of excessive indulgence in alcohol. The man was liable to die at any moment considering the state of his heart Death was caused by the failure of the heart's ootion with tho formation of the blood-clot on the right side. The Jury returned a verdict wit.iout retiring in. ..... J . . I.L . L. ______12--1
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Adelaide Observer
Adelaide, South Australia, AU
Sat, Feb 13, 1886
Page 30
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