DROWNED AT LAWYERS HEAD

Evening Star, Issue 18979, 29 June 1925, Page 6

DROWNED AT LAWYERS HEAD

AH OPEN VERDICT Except that tho woman's nature waif peculiar, no reason could he adduced by witnesses at the inquest to-day as to why Annie Macfarlane was found drowned at 'Lawyers Head on Saturday. After -evidence of identification had been given by Joseph Patterson Taitc, for whom deceased worked for three weeks a,s housekeeper, during which, witness stated, sho showed a- peculiar temperament and a disinclination to go out or “mix up” with people, evidence was given hv Lewis Edwards, foreman to (he Ocean lleach Domain Board, who found the body at Lawyers Head lying 10ft below high water.' Hi? informed the police, and Constable Smith removed the body to the morgue. Anthony Goulhric. worsted foreman at, the Mosg'iel Mills, who had employed deceased as housekeeper up to tho time of her disappearance, related that when ho ret timed homo on Saturday he found written on a slate, a- message from -deceased stating that she had gone out. Deceased, lie added, always appeared to ho a peculiar woman. He corroborated what .Mr Taite had remarked concerning Meceased’s temperament. Constable Smith gave evidence as to tho removal of tho body to the morgue, and stated that deceased had relatives in St. Kihhi. and in Auckland. The verdict of tho Coroner (Mr J. B. Bartholomew, S.M.) was that deceasedhad been found drowned.