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that stops would be taken to toll tbe vacancy. This concluded the business.CORONERS' INQUESTS.DEATH AT THE ADELAIDE HOSPITAL,At the Out-patients' Dispensary on Saturday morning tbe City Coroner held an inquest on the body of Jane Cole (tho wife of James Ormond Cole, a collector oi debU, raiding in Roper-street), who wai admitted into the Hoaidtal on February 4. aud died there on the following day. Mr. Cole said they had been married eleven yean, and had one child. They bad lived at Adelaide, Venus Bay, and Smith field at intervals, and bad always got on well together. She uaed to assist witness ( in _nia busioesa. He lived in Adelaide eight or nioo years, in various parts of tbe city. A mouth sgo they had words. Doceascd scratched Cole's face, and he retaliated by striking her in the face with his oinn hand. She seemed upset afterwards. They had not quarrelled during tho last few days. His wife had left to stay with a Mrs. Aries about a fortnight ■go. He could not account for the black mark which disfigured the deceased's left eye. Ho had becu drinking lately, but knew what he bad been doing. His wife had to hil knowledge been the worse for liquor on two occasic ns only. Dr. J. Attica Baid he was called to see deceased on February 3 She was at her own hour.* in Kopcr-street. sitting on a couch iu a semi conscious condition. Ho found recent bruires over each temple and great tenderness st tho back of the head. Deceased became oonscious in half an hour, and expressed herself as feeling very ill. The huabond, who was present in a half-drunken condition, said he wished to put wituoss on tho alert, and, tainting to bis wife, said, She says 1 struck her ycsterdav on the chest He examined her obeat and noticed a depression at tho sternal end of tho third and fourth riba on the right aide, but could dotcct no fracture. Her breath did not smell of spirits, although some neighbour who was present said she was not of temperate habits. Ho concluded that there was cerebral hemorrhage and prescribed for hor accordingly. He called again during the afternoon, Dut deceased waa then at a neighbour's houeo in Wakefiold-street He went to the place and discovered that she had fallen into a convulsion and had severely bruised her left eye. There was also sn abrasion on tbs left cheek. He requested Mrs. Aries, at whose house the woman was, to take charge of her, and ■he did so. He visited the place again in the evening and the next morning, Deceased
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Adelaide Observer
Adelaide, South Australia, AU
Sat, Feb 13, 1886
Page 29
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