CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3] — Page 370

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Harold Macfarlane sworn & examined :

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I am Medical Officer in charge of the Victoria Mortuary. I made a post-mortem examination of a European male identi- fied to me by Warder Ledsbury and Warder Speed as the body of Harry Stephens and by Sergt. Pitt as that of a body he had found on the hillside. The identification was held at

li a.m. on the 5th February instant. The body was fresh. There was a deep mark of the ligature round the neck. The internal organs showed signs of asphyxia. The cause was of death was aspyxis due to strangulation.

Wilfred Vincent Miller Koch sworn & examined ;

I am Assistant Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital and Medical officer in charge of the Lunatic Asylwns. A man named Harry Stephans was admitted into the Asylum on the 16th January last. He was kept under observation until the 20th January. No Bigna of insanity showing themselves he was transferred to the Government Civil Hospital on that date and finally discharged from that institution on the 22nd January. I was informed that he attempted to commit suicide by standing on his head in a bath full of water. He said that he had no recollection of that whatever and could not have attempted anything like that. Stephone was of a aullen and morose disposition but showed no delusions or any other sign that would lead me to conclude that he was insane.

John William Franks sworn & examined :

I am Assistant Superintendent, Victoria Gaol. The deceased was a warder in Victoria Gaol. At the time of his death the deceased was not a warder. He had been re- tired on medical grounds. He was allowed to live in the

quarters. His history as an officer of the Gaol was good. He joined on the 12th December 1913. The reason he was

retired was that both in my opinion and in the opinion of

the medical officer it was undesirable to have an officer