Percy, Adelaide Eliza Jane

Birth Details
1862/2547, Adelaide Eliza Jane Percy - no parents listed

Wellington Independent 25 March 1862
BIRTH.- At the Koro Koro (sic), Petoni (sic), on Wednesday, the 19th instant, the wife of Mr. Joseph Percy, of a daughter

Death Details
1913/3636, Adelaide Eliza Jane Percy, Aged: 51Y

Hutt Valley Cemetery Records Adelaide Eliza Jane Percy, Date: 6 May 1913, Christ Church Anglican, Taita, Monumental Inscription and Burial Records, Reference: 80

Evening Post 6 May 1913
Deaths in the City
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At 7.15 a.m. to-day a patient of Dr. Collin''s private hospital in Davis-street, Miss A. J. Percy, was found hanging by a belt and a towel from a projection on the wall behind the screen in her room. Deceased was last seen alive by Nurse James about twenty minutes before being discovered. An enquiry will be held at 3 p.m. to-morrow at the Court. The late Miss Percy was a well-known resident of Main Hutt-road, Petone.

Evening Post 7 May 1913
FUNERAL Notice
THE Funeral of the late Miss Adelaide E. J. Percy, will leave the residence of Mrs. J. Percy, Hutt-road, Petone, Tomorrow (Thursday), 8th May, 1913, at 1.30 p.m., for the Church Cemetery, Taita. Private interment.
R. H. PARRANT AND CO.,
Undertakers, 46, Fitzherbert-street, Petone

Evening Post 8 May 1913
EVIDENCE AT AN INQUEST
An inquest was held at the Magistrate''s Court last evening by Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., concerning the death of Adelaide Eliza Jane Percy, a single woman of Petone, who was found hanging from the wall in the Davis-street Private Hospital at 7.20 a.m on Tuesday.
Dr. Collins said that deceased went into the hospital on 22nd March, but had been in his care previously. She was neurotic and once told him that she felt suicidal, but he did not attach much importance to what she said. She was continually under witness''s observation, but he did not think that at any time she would be better in a mental hospital. Artificial respiration was administered for a lengthy period, but with no result. Death was due to strangalation, self-inflicted, during a period of temporary insanity. The Coroner said that it was clear that deceased received all attention possible. The verdict was in accordance with the medical evidence.