WOMAN FOUND DEAD.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20898, 4 July 1933, Page 10

WOMAN FOUND DEAD.

inquest adjourned. Formal evidence was heard at the opening of the inquest yesterday afternoon concerning the death of Eleanor Montgomery, a single woman, aged about 60 years, of 243. Cambridge terrace, whose body was found in a gully near the Sign of the Takahe on the journed V shie I die n^UeSt ' WhiCh " as idenfffiprf e ii' a parage foreman, identified the body. He said he had SS Mont pmery for a number of years, as she had lived in the same boarding house as he. He had last seen her alive about June if when spirits.^ 3 t0 be in good health an d Robert William Johnson, a salesman also identified the body. The woman had never talked of suicide in his preon" June 18 IHSt Seen her alive Constable C. Grayburn said that early on the previous afternoon he had been sent up to the Cashmere Hills where he had found the body. It was a f u J ly a b o ut u half a mile from . 9 the Takahe on the eastern side of Dyer's Pass road. He was of the opinion that the woman had been in a sitting position and had then fallen face downwards. A medicine bottle about one-third full of a white liquid was lying by the body, wrapped in brown paper, on which the word "dangerous was written. There was also the cup from the top of a thermos bottle containing some tea leaves and a white substance. Witness added that the woman had left a letter in her room at her lodgings.