RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.
Tuesday, June 20. (Before T. W. Parker, Esq., R.M.)
CIVIL CASES.
Procter v. Moore. — Claim, L4 16s. Judgment for plaintiff for amount claimed.
Same v. Sullivan. — Claim, L3 12s. Judgment for plaintiff by default.
LUNACY.
Mary Mitchell, wife of Jas. Mitchell, was brought up charged with being of unsound mind, and committed to the Lunatic Asylum, Dunedin. -North Otago Times, 21/6/1876.
An inquest was held yesterday at the Lunatic Asylum on the body of Mary Mitchell, aged thirty-one years, who died on the 10th instant. The deceased was brought down from Oamaru in the early part of July last in apparently a dying state, and lingered with much suffering. It appeared from the evidence that she was a native of Cornwall, and prior to emigrating had "worked in a mine," where, probably, the seeds of the insidious disease to which she succumbed were sown. The jury (of which Mr C. H. Vince was chosen foreman) were unanimous in expressing their belief that every attention possible had been given to the unhappy patient, who presented a terribly emaciated appearance, being little more than a skeleton. The case was a very pitiable one, inasmuch as the husband, a laborer at Oamaru, is unable to find means to come down to his wife's funeral. It transpired that one of the inmates had evinced a very affectionate interest in the deceased and was an almost inseparable nurse. The verdict was "Death from heart disease." -Evening Star, 14/11/1876.
Mary Mitchell was buried in a pauper's grave in Dunedin's Northern Cemetery.
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