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Jurymen’s Rights.—Dr. Diplock held an inquest on Saturday, at the Admiral Nelson Tavern, Kilburn, on the body of Elsie Martin, an illegitimate child, nine weeks old, whose mother, Elizabeth Wakeham Martin, who said she was a governess, lives at King’s Sutton near Oxford.—It appeared from the evidence that deceased had been at nurse for the last six weeks with Ann Bartlett, a widow, living at i, Carlton-terrace, Carlton-road, Kilburn. The child died sudden -ly on Wednesday, before a medical man saw it.— Dr. S. H. Davson, 203, Maida Vale, deposed that the deceased died from convulsions. The stomach was empty. The internal organs of the body were healthy, but theskin was full of eruptions.—A juryman called attention to a matter which, he said, his fellow jurors had noticed—that the child was put in the coffin so that only part of its face was visible, and no other part of the body.—The Coroner said he had noticed such a practice in other districts. It was undoubtedly done by the undertakers, jurymen had a right to view the whole of the body. If it occured again he should exercise his right as a coroner and stop it.— A verdict in accordance with the medical evidence was returned.T'V ___ .___ A 1 . 1 . * M _ 1.1
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Courier and Middlesex Counties Courier Gazette
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Jun 22, 1889
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