ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVIII, Issue LXXVIII, 14 June 1919, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

4 WOMAN DROWNED. A fatality occurred in Te Henui river yesterday .which aroused wide, spread sympathy for the relatives of the unfortunate victim, Mrs Ethel: Grace Gardiner (the News reports). | It appears that deceased had been m indifferent health for the past two1 years, since the somewhat, sudaen death ' of her husband, and her condition had i given her relatives cause for considerable anxiety. On Thursday night she! retired to bed at about 10 o'clock, hay- I ing been perfectly natural during the! evening. On rising on Friday morning' it was discovered about 7 o'clock that she had left the house, and the police; were informed and a search was ai I once instituted. About the middle of I the morning a shoe, which was identi-' fied as having belonged to deceased, | was found near T e Henui river, and there were marks on the bank, about 150 yards on the Devon street side of ■■ the railway bridge, as of someone hay-! ing slipped into the river. Two con-' stables then proceeded to the locality, and with assistance secured a boat and began to drag the river, and at about 3.30 in the afternoon the body was found near the bank in about 10ft of i water, fully clothed, except for shoes and hat. about a chain from the posi- ! tion on the bank where the shoe was' discovered. Deceased was 35 years of'