EVIDENCE NOT BELIEVED

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21464, 4 May 1935, Page 10

EVIDENCE NOT BELIEVED

DEATH 01" NIGHTWATCH.MAN IN AUCKLAND lIAHROUU '.yaa:»3 ASSOCIATION IBLSGiIAU.) AUCKLAND. May 3. "It is evident that a lot of what lias been told to mo at this inquest is not correct." fiaid Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., when ho concluded the inquest into the death of Arthur Forbes Murray, .T.;ed 59. widower, nightwatchman on the Union Steam Ship Company's hulk Flora, who disappeared from a launch in the harbour on the night of January 23. "These people—Mrs Taylor, the launchman Malton. and Murray—were drinking together and went on the launch about the time the hotels closed," he said. "The launch did not p;o out to the Flora until nearly 8 p.m. There was time for them to have more lkiuor, and that is what I think probably happened. The whole of the circumstances point to the fact that these people were drinking—that the two men could not get the woman on to the launch after she fell overboard—and this leads me to believe that they all had over-indulged in liquor. I don't think Murray jumped into the water. I thing he'fell overboard." The coroner returned a verdict that Murray was accidentally drowned on January 23.