DEPRESSED SEAMAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 182, 4 August 1930, Page 7

DEPRESSED SEAMAN.

BODY FOUND UNDER "WHARF.

FRIEND'S STORY AT INQUEST.

"Tommy, I am done; I won't .see the night out." Depressed !by his ill-health, Thomas Carpenter, seaman, aged about 35, whose body was found in the water under a wharf in Ponsonby shortly after four o'clock on Saturday, passed tneso remarks to his friend, T; 'W. H. Cox, earlier in the day. Giving evidence at the inquest, which opened ibefore the coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., this morning, Mr. Cox eaid that the dead man had recently had an operation. He saw Carpenter on Saturday morning , and ho said that he was feeling bad. "If anything happens to me," he said, "look after my gear." Cox told him not to 'be foolish, .and said he would stay the night with him. ■ Mr. Cox then went away to break off his engagements, and on returning half an hour later found that his friend had disappeared. The next he saw of him was in the hospital morgue. had left two notes bequeathing his property. "He was evidently depressed," said Mr. Hunt, adjourning the inquest until medical evidence could be taken.