The fate of Miss Hickman, the unhappy lady doctor who
on August 15th walked out of the Roya,1 Free Hospital, appar- ently to take the air, and then disappeared from human ken, has been partially cleared up. Some boys who were seeking chestnuts found a body in one of the preserves in Richmond Park, and it was subsequently identified past all doubt as that of the missing lady. The inquest has been adjourned to November 5th, and much evidence remains to be brought forward ; but in the opinion of the police and the doctors the death was either self-inflicted or was due to natural causes. It should be added that a medicine bottle was found near the body ; but it was empty, and the organs had been so greatly injured by exposure to the terrible weather of the last two months that the experts despair of finding any traces of poison, if poison were really taken. A small operating-knife was also found outside the copse, but whether it belonged to Miss Hickman is not clear.
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