DEATH BY DROWNING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 158, 16 April 1928, Page 5

DEATH BY DROWNING.

THE LATE MISS H. PACKER. (Per Press Association.) CHRIST/CHURCH, This Day. The inquest concerning the death of Hannah Packer was held before the Coroner, Mr E. D. Mosley, on Saturday morning. ■ Clara Packer, sister of deceased, gave evidence of identification. Deceased was a single woman she said, 60 years of ago last birthday. bhe and deceased had lived together at 2o Cranmer Square. She last saw her sister alive at 7.30 p.m. on Thursday. Deceased "went to bed very early on that night, feeling tired and weary. She had given no indications other intention to take her own life. Witness said deceased was the last person she would have expected to do siich a thing. She had had it on her mind that she was suffering from an incurable disease. Witness said that there was no foundation for this. On the following morning witness missed her sister from the house She found a note on the hall table. Witness identified the note, which was produced, and stated that it was in her sister's handwriting. Constable Henderson, New Brighton, said tli at at mid-day on Friday he received a telephone message to the effect that" there was a body on the beach. There-were no marks of violence on the body. From the amount of sand in the clothing, the body must have been in the sea for. some time. "Deceased met her death on or about April 13, 1928. Death was "due to suicide by drowning while in a state of severe mental depression," was the verdict of the Coroner. "No doubt deceased was suffering from the aftereffects of the operation for goitre," he addedt