MARRIED WOMAN’S DEATH

Evening Star, Issue 19387, 22 October 1926, Page 3

MARRIED WOMAN’S DEATH

DROWNED IN ASHBURTON RIVER [Pee United I’aiiss Association.] ASHBURTON, October 21. A young married woman, wife of , Patrick M'Ginn, was drowned in ilio i ■ Ashburton River. A young man re- |, ported to tbo police about noon that ' • as ho was crossing tho bridge a woman, who was at tlio water’s edge, called , to him, saying: “It' anyone inquires for Mrs M'Ginn you can tell them I have drowned myself.” An immediate , search was made, resulting in the body being recovered from a deep pool. HUSBAND CHARGED AVJ.TU : DRUNKENNESS. ASHBURTON, October 22. i TV’hen the inquest was opened last evening for tho purpose of taking for- : ' mal evidence of identification of Bridget M'Ginn, the husband was i - placed under arrest on a charge of' drunkenness. The coroner said that M'Ginn was so much under the influence of liquor that he would not allow , him into tho morgue. It was a standing disgrace that a man should be in such a condition when ho was going ■ to identify tbo body of his dead wife. He had_ asked tho ■ police to take M'Ginn in charge and bring him before the magistrate, in the morning. The ages of the deceased’s children range Horn six years to fourteen months. She was recently separated from her husband.