WOMAN FALLS 400 FEET
AVIFE OF PROMINENT CHRISTCHURCH RESIDENT.
BY Tt.legbafh— pbess association. . Christchurch, May 13
The dead body of Mrs. - MacDonald, wife of Mr. Ranald McDonald, wellknown in local business and social circles, was found this morning at the foot of tho cliffs at Scarborough, Sumner. Everything pointe to deceased having fallen from the top of the cliffs, which at this point are 400 feet high. Mrs! MacDonald was missed yesterday evening, and a search was made, but abandoned owing to darkness and heavy seas. At the inquest the evidence showed that Mrs. MacDonald linfi been a sufferer from giddiness, and that it would have been a very dangerous thing for her to go near a cliff. Hie verdict was one of death, due to severe and extensive injuries caused through accidentally falling down the cliff.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 195, 15 May 1922, Page 4
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