ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
(Per Press Association.) At the inquest on Mrs Owen, of Petone, her husband, John Joseph Owen, said his wife went out on Sunday morning at 5 o’clock and could not be found. Samuel J omes said he saw the deceased acting strangely, apparently out of her mind, on the steps of the Petone wharf. He wont for the police and when he returned the woman was in the water dead. Tlie jury returned a verdict that dentil was due to drowning while of unsound mind.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 17, 4 January 1927, Page 4
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88ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 17, 4 January 1927, Page 4
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