INCORRECT EVIDENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 104, 4 May 1935, Page 17

INCORRECT EVIDENCE

INQUEST ON DROWNED MAN

CORONER'S CONCLUSION

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, May 3.

"It is evident that a lot of what has been told to me at this inquest is not correct," said Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., when he concluded an inquest concerning the death of Arthur Forbes Murray, 59 years of age, widower, a nightwatchman on the Union 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 the deceased, were drinking together, arid went on the' launch about the time the hotels closed," he said. "The launched not go out to the Flora until nearly 8 p.m.. There was time for them to have more liquor, 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 lauhchr 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 think he fell overboard."

The Coroner returned a verdict-that Murray was accidentally drowned on January 23.