INDEX TO INQUESTS VPRS 1882-92
GILES Frances Ann, Disease of the Heart, Glendaruel, wife 56 years [679/86]

page 1 [679] 10th June 1886 PROCEEDINGS of INQUIRY held upon the body of Frances Ann Giles Glendaruel
Received at the Crown Law Offices 14th June 1886 G. Rennie J.P. Coroner.

page 2 Police Department Superintendent's Office Ballarat June 12th 1886
Memo : The attached depositions & Surgeon's Account are forwarded to the Hon. The Attorney General Melbourne. 3679 Signature of Supt.

page 3 Colony of Victoria Southern Bailwick To Wit
I have today held an enquiry as to the cause of death of Frances Ann Giles of Glendaruel and from the evidence before me find that the cause of death was cardiac syncope.
George Rennie J.P. Glendaruel 10th June 1886.

page 4 CORONER'S INQUEST. COLONY OF VICTORIA, TO WIT.
This Deponent, Edwin John Gordon, registered on his oath saith,
I am a Medical Practitioner residing at Learmonth.
I examined the body and internal organs of the deceased Frances Ann Giles on this day 10th June 1886 & found old standing disease of the pericardium also fatty degeneration of the walls of the heart with dilatation of the right ventricle, in my opinion the deceased died from cardiac syncope the result of the above named conditions.
Edwin J Gordon
Taken and Sworn before me, the 10th day of June, 1886, at Glendaruel
George Rennie J.P. Coroner.

page 5 CORONER'S INQUEST. COLONY OF VICTORIA, TO WIT.
This Deponent, Thomas Giles on his oath saith,
I am a Farmer residing at Glendaruel.
I am husband to the deceased Frances Ann Giles the subject of the present inquiry. She is fifty-six years of age. On the night of the 8th instant she retired to bed about 8 1/2 o'clock. She was then in her usual state of health. She had about one half hours sleep on her left side when she awoke and turned on her back after lying on her back for a short time she complained of being short of breath. She then made a rush out of bed and went into the verandah. I struck a light and followed her. She said I cannot last long at this. I then despatched my son for Doctor Gordon. We sat in the verandah for half an hour me supporting her then carried her in and placed her on the bed in about twenty minutes afterwards she expired. She had been complaining of shortness of breath for some time past. When Doctor Gordon arrived she was dead.
Thomas [his x mark] Giles
Witness to Mark Thos. W Glade 8651 Snr. Constable
Taken and Sworn before me, the 10th day of June, 1886, at Glendaruel George Rennie J.P. Coroner.