WOMAN'S DEATH

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 146, 18 December 1933, Page 10

WOMAN'S DEATH

RELATIVES SUSPICIONS

BODY EXHUMED i

(By Telegraph.—Press Association) OAMARU, This Day. On September 17 Miss Jessie M. Fendall, a teacher at Otckaieke Special School, was found unconscious at the foot of an eleven-foot bank of a dry creek bed near the school. There were two severe wounds in tho forehead. She was removed to the Oamaru Hospital, and died on iSeptember 25 without regaining consciousness. Arery little information was obtainable at the time, but certain other facts have since come to light. It appears that when the deceased was found her shoes had been removed and were lying alongside the .body together with a book she had taken to read. Apart from the injuries to the forehead there was no other bruise or graze on any other part of the body. Miss Fendall's relatives at Auckland apparently are not entirely satisfied" that the injuries were caused by a fall from the bank, and have been instrumental in having an intensive investigation made by the police. The body was exhumed last week. No further details, however, are yet available, and tho police have given no indication to support the belief that the affair was other than an accident.