COOK OVERBOARD
EVIDENCE AT INQUEST.
[PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.]
AUCKLAND, August 19
An inquest was held before Mr. Wyvern Wilson, as coroner, into the supposed death of Georg© Leaden, cook of the trawler James Cosgrove, who disappeared from the vessel in the Bay of Plenty on May 24. Captain Flett said that Leaden was a member of the crew when the vessel sailed from Auckland on May 21. About 6.45 p.m. on May 24, when the ship was in the Bay of Plenty, it was reported to him that Leaden was missing. He turned back and retraced the ship’s course for an hour and a half and ordered a search of the ship. The witness knew of no reason why Leaden should jump overboard, but Leaden had complained of stomach troubles. He had been cook aboard the vessed for 12 months. He was a single man. The coroner found that Leaden died when he was lost overboard. The evidence was not sufficient to show whether he fell overboard or committed suicide by drowning.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 August 1936, Page 14
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