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DEATH IN THE MELBOURNE
GAOL.
Dr. Youl held an inquest yesterday on the
body of an elderly woman named Catherine
Johnson, aged 73 years, who died in the
Melboume Gaol on the previous day. It ap-
pears the deceased usually followed the
occupation of a washerwoman, and she was
sentenced a day or two ago by the Prah-
ran bench of magistrates to a term of im-
prisonment for vagrancy. The evidence of Dr.
Shields was to the elfeot that death resulted
from diarrhoea and debility, and the jury
returned a verdict in accordnace with the medi-
cal testimony.
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