STEWARD'S FATAL FALL.
DISAPPEARED AFTER ARREST. VERDICT OF ACCIDENTAL DEATH. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) OHRISTCHURCH, this day. An unusual sequence of events was described at an inquest held at Lyttel,fon yesterday into the death of James McGlone, single, aged 23, engineers' messroom steward on the steamer Port Hunter. Police witnesses said that McGlone, who had been drinking, was arrested on Tuesday evening for using obscene language. Later he disappeared from the watchhouse while the constable in charge was attending to a telephone. His body was found the iiexfc morning in the yards of the gasworks. There was no sign of a struggle. McGlone must have fallen about 40 feet from the road above. There was a partly-filled bottle of whisky near the body. Other witnesses told of a party earlier in the evening at which drink had been consumed. In accordance with the medical evidence, a verdict was returned that death was caused by injuries accidentally •received by falling over a.cliff.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 165, 14 July 1932, Page 8
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