CASS VALLEY FATALITY
(0.C.) TIMARU, Monday. An Inquest, was opened at Timaru into the deaths of Frederick Oswald Tozer, aged 24, and Albert David Jackson, aged 45, who perished while on a climbing trip in the Cass Valley at the end of August. The inquest was adjourned sine die. Death in both cases had apparently been caused by suffocation, said Dr. G H. Ussher giving evidence. In. the inquest on Mr. Jackson, evidence was given by Lindley Kennedy Murray, a master at Timaru Boys' High School, where Mr. Jackson had been senior mathematics and science master. Witness explained that the bodies of the two men had been found lying close together. Both were fully clothed and were wearing crampons. There were no outward signs of injury, and they were apparently overwhelmed by a minor snow avalanche while attempting the ascent of an unnamed peak.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 307, 29 December 1942, Page 2
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