Before Mr. L T. Morris, HM. Coroner, the inquest on the body of the late Miss Jean McLean Martin, j [matron of the Shanghai Municipal Police Hospital, who died ori December 11 following a fall from the roof of the hospital, was resumed in LIN. Coroner's Court yesterday morning.
The first witness to give evidence, Miss Ethel Louise Warren,. Senior member of the Nursing Staff, SMC. who had previously given evidence of identification at the opening of the enquiry, stated that she had known deceased as a member of the S.M.C: nursing staff and since her death she had examined the messing and petty cash books in connection with the Police Hospital and had found everything to be in order. Miss Martin, she added, was a very effücient matron and was well liked by the staff of the hospital.
Answering Mr. Morris witness said that deceased had never threatened to take her life during the period she had known her. She had had a very strenuous time during the hostilities, however, and her leave had been advanced to December of this year.
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