The adjourned inquest on the body of Dime Joseph Hassan took place at 2 pan. at the British Consulate, Dr. Ernest Marshall, sworn, said he made a post mortem examination of the body of amole aged between 40 and 45 years, and found it in an emaciated condition and deformed by tuberculosis disease at the right, hip. The bowels internally showed uleeration characteristic of typhoid fever. There was an entire absence of nutriment in the food canal. Deuth had occurred advanced stage of the disease, Tt had evidently been determined by want of sustaining treatment. There were no marks: of violence upon the body, nor anything to suggest foul play.
A native lodging-house keeper, cautioned, said deceased arrived at his howse six days ayo from Soochow. He knew deceased 1 met him frequently. Deceased was, to him by a Chinese friend, He lained of being sick when he came he house and asked for congee water. He took this for four days and then stopped it, He had nothing to eat the day before he died. He said on that day that he intended seeing a doctor the next day, but on the morning of the Ast inst. found dead hed. washerman sid he knew father some sixteen years ago kepba shop in the Szechiven Road.
Asorvantof the lodging house said he Look to the deceased at 7 a.m. and called him several times, but getting no answer, reported to the proprietor, Mir. K.'T. Rivero, shipping clerk at H. M. Shipping Office, sworn, said that he be: lieved he know the deceased by reason having been told he had a crooked leg, but he had not seen the body himself." Deceased's father had been employed ax a watchman on board Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s opium hulk, Yuenfah, and was a Malay. The mother of deceased was Chinese. Both had died many years ago.
This finished all the evidence, and the jury. having expressed themselves satisfied, returned a verdict of ' Death from exhaustion following on typhoid
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