BODY FOUND OF WOMAN MISSING FOR FOUR DAYS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22656, 5 June 1948, Page 6

BODY FOUND OF WOMAN MISSING FOR FOUR DAYS

(P.A.) AUCKLAND, June 5. The body of an 80-year-old woman who had not been seen for four days was found by a search party yesterday afternoon lying on a steep bush track at Birkdale some 200 yards from the three-roomed bach where she lived with her husband She was

Mrs. Rachael Sargent, wife of Mr Frederick W Sargent, Beach road, Birkdale

Following the discovery, a squad of police from the central station was dispatched to the scene A pathologist, Dr. W Gilmour. accompanied the party and made a preliminary examination of the body befoie it was removed to the city mortuary.

Slight abrasions, which could have been caused by a fall, were the only visible sign of injury.

Dr. Gilmour will conduct a postmortem examination today.

Neighbours who had not seen Mrs. Sargent since Monday . afternoon became concerned and communicated with the police. Mrs. Sargent’s hat was lying 20 or 30ft. away. Her clothes were saturated with rain and one sand-shoe she had been wearing was missing, while the other was not laced up. Interviewed at his bach, Mr Sargent said he last saw his wife on Monday afternoon. She had been in the city during the day and went out again about 4.30 p-m. without telling him where she was going He was not worried when she did not come back and thought she must be staying with friends in the city.