At the inquest into the death of Alice Daisy Simmons in H. M.
ace Court yesterday, Mr. C. H.
es, the Coroner, found that she filed ota gunshot wound while she at s Night Club on february 16, and.expréssed the hope t the S. M. P. would be able to g murderer to justice. The ari) E o give evidence of a post on Mis Bim-4 He bout: Mie mae he found a wound po! "bullet emerging from per body jo left lumbar region.
jo wound. was clean, he said. and Consistent with the body being hori-tal to the ground when it entered.
witness went on to say that death owa have been quick, coming ithin fifteen minutes at the outside.
ere Was little visible external jeeding from the wound.
Dr. Alexander Korosi was then galled, and said that he was at Far-fen's Night Club on February 15, when he heard a number of shots Shortly after midnight. A few utes later he was summoned to roulette room upstairs. where he w a man lying on a couch. He attended to this man. and then saw Miss Simmons, whom he knew, lying another couch. He first thought t she had only fainted. and was Suffering from shock, as there was no sign of any wound.
He finally put her into a taxi and took her to the Country Hospital in many with two police officers. On e way he noticed that her pulse had stopped beating, and when they arrived at the hospital he tried to revive her, but without success, He then notified Dr. Squires. her medical attendant, In the meantime he had taken off her dress and saw the bullet wound.
In Roulette Room Mrs. Clara White told the court how the shooting took place in the roulette room. She was in Farren's when. she heard a commotion at the en{ratce of the room and saw a party of men standing at the doorway. One man went to the right of the root, behind the gamblers and fired one shot, yelling unintelligibly at the game time. A few seconds later one the group at the doorway fired a shot into the room. This shot was fired almost directly at Miss Simmons, e witness explained. while she was japing down, possibly to pick up her bag. Miss Simmons called out "Bessie, I'm shot, I'm shot". and slid under the table. In the meantime several more shots had been fired after the Austrian watchman jumped on one of the gangsters. and somebody shouted for the others to take cover.
Witness said that she then crawled under the fable and saw deceased's legs moving, later stiffening. Afterwards when the gang had gone two men tried to revive her, and put her on a couch. She was unconscious at this time, and breathing heavily. Mrs. White added.
In giving his verdict. Mr. Haines said, "I find that Alice Daisy Simmons died at Shanghai on February 16, 1941. and that the cause of death was internal haemorrhage due to a gunshot wound inflicted by some person unknown at Farren's Night Club. Great Western Road, on the same day.
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