CORONER’S VERDICT
Inquest on Drowned Woman ACCIDENTAL DEATH By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, December 1. The inquest concerning the death of Mrs. Rose Boyle, whose body was recovered from the Waiau River yesterday, was resumed this morning, when her husband, 3lr. A. P. Boyle, stock agent, gave evidence that since the birth of their child four months ago the deceased had been suffering from insomnia. Later she had been in a rest house in Cashmere, where she was pronounced to have been cured, but on the advice of a doctor witness took her to Hamner, where she was perfectly normal. Witness had had no cause for anxiety. On Thursday, November 23, they were bathing with others at 3larble Point, iu the Waiau River. Witness and the deceased bathed there the next day, and after a bathe Mrs. Boyle walked away and he did not see her again. It was possible that she slipped on a rock and had fallen iu the stream.
The coroner. 3lr. H. P. Lawry. returned a verdict of accidental death by drowning.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 59, 2 December 1933, Page 8
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