“EVIDENCE IS NOT CORRECT”
MAN DISAPPEARS FROM LAUNCH COMMENT BY CORONER (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, To-day. “It is evident that a lot of what has been told me at this inquest is not correct,” said Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., when he concluded an inquest touching the death of Arthur Forbes Murray, aged 50, a widower, employed on the Union Company’s hulk Flora, who disappeared from a launch in the harbour on the night of January 23. “These" people, Mrs Taylor, the launehman (Malton) and Murray were drinking together and went on the launch about the time* the hotels closed,” he said. “The launch did not go out to the Flora until nearly 8 p.m. There was time for them to have more liquor and that is what I think probably happened. •
“The whole of Ihe circumstances point to the fact that these people were drinking and that the two men could not get the woman on the launch after she fell overboard. This loads me to believe that they all had over-indulged in liquor. “I don’t think Murray jumped into the water. I think he fell overboard.” The coroner returned a verdict that Murray was accidentally drowned on January 23.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 4 May 1935, Page 5
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