was not, however, on the bed. In another corner of the room, where a spare bed stood, witness noticed the bedding was on fire. She then made her way out of the room, as she was nearly suffocated with the smoke, and raised an alarm of fire. Mr Wing was in the street when she came to the front door, and she told him that ehe could not find Mri Copland and was afraid she was burnt. Mr Wing at once entered the house, struck a match, and went into the bedroom. As he could do nothing without a light, Mr Wing went to his own place and brought a candle, Mr Leary accompanying him. When she attended deceased at dinner-time, witness left a small fire burning in the bedroom fire-place. Deceased was then fully dressed. She took her dinner that day in the dining room in order to allow witness to tidy the bedroom. Deceased seemed to be in low spirits that day ; indeed, she had not been in very good epirits for some time back. Arthur Philip Wing deposed that when Mrs Clarke (the previous witness) told him that she could not find Mrs Copland, he immedi ately entered the house, which was then full of smoke. Mrs Clarke directed him to de ceased's bedroom, but as he could do nothing without a light, he went to his own place for a candle, and got Mr Leary to accompany him. They found deceased in her bedroom, sitting in a chair, alongside the bed. She was apparently lifeless. The bed clothing was j smouldering : there was no blaze. Sergeant Conn deposed that as soon as he heard Mrs Copland's house was on fire, he ran over to the house as quickly as he could. He found the front door open and a dense volume of smoke issuing from the building. He orept along the passage to Mrs Copland's bedroom, the door of' which was open, and searched the bed, but did not find deceased there. He then struck some matches, and found the deceased in a sitting poßture on a chair between a wash-hand stand and a spare bed that was in the room. The body was quite nude, cold, and lifeless, life apparently having been extinct for some time. 