TOO MUCH LIQUOR.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 12, 15 January 1929, Page 7

TOO MUCH LIQUOR.

Young Girl's Fatal New Year

Eve Carouse.

ECHO POINT TRAGEDY

SYDNEY, January 14

An inquest was held to-day concerning the death of Kola Rowley, aged IS, who was killed at the bottom of a precipice at Echo Point, Katoomba, early in the morning of New Year's Dav.

Cyril Thompson, brother-in-law of deceased, deposed that he drove & motor car from Sydney to Katoomba on New Year's Eve. The party consisted of deceased* her brother and sister and two young men. They had a dozen bottles of be?r and some whisky in the car.

The party danced in La Plaza saloon at Echo Point until 'i a.m. Deceased left the hall with a man. Later she was discovered in an intoxicated conditfon arguing and crying in turn.

A free fight then occurred between the young men in the party. Deceased was then seen to climb over the guardrail at the Echo Point lookout station and to drop over the cliff, a distance of ncarlv 200 ft.

Witness expressed the opinion that deceased must have obtained liquor from other people while she wee outside the s»aloon.

Tho coroner returned a verdict to the effect that deceased had committed suicide through a temporary mental derangement caused by partaking of ton much liquor.