GIRL’S SUICIDE

Grey River Argus, 15 January 1929, Page 5

GIRL’S SUICIDE

200 FOOT LEAP TO DOOM. A Tragedy of Drink. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Beelved Jan. 24 at 6.35 p*nr.) SYDNEY, January 14. The Coroner to-day inquired into the death of Nola Rowley, who was killed at the bottom of the pi! crpiee at Echo Point, on the Blue Mounta:ns_ early on New Year’s morning. Cyril Thompson, her brother-in-law, d posed that he drove a ear from Sydney to Katoomba on New Year’s Eve, the party in the car consisting of the atceased's brother and sister, two young men and Nola. There wens a oozen ffiottles of beer and whisky in the ear. The party dauo d in the La P.aza Saloon at Echo Point till two a.m. Nola Bewley retired with a man. She was later discovered in an intoxicated condition, arguing and crying alternately. A free fight occurred among the young men over Noja. who was seen t(T climb over the guard rail at the Eeho Point Lookout, and then to drop over the" cliff nearly two hundred' feet. Thompson stated he was of the opinion that she must have obtained liquor from others while outside of the saloon. The Coroner returned a verdict that Nola Rowley had committed -suicide, through temporary mental derangement, caus’sl by partaking of too much liquor.