TOMBE INQUEST.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 26 September 1923, Page 3

TOMBE INQUEST.

DRAMATIC FEATURE

OF TWO WOMEN

ant OABLB-PBBSS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT Received Sept. 26, 1.10 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 25. The evidence of two women in deep mourning and heavily veiled, whoso names were not disclosed/ was a dramatic feature of the close of the Tumbe inquest. Mrs Dyer, a gopd-iuokiiig young woman, was also in Court. j The Rev. Gordon Tombe detailed his long search for his son. He i ientiiied » large number of cheques on his son's "banking account which were forgeries. They had been fiJPb written in pencil } and then the signature inked over. ' The first mystery woman proved to he the unknown friend referred. U- in j a cable on the 13th, who mil Dyer ' that she believed Tombe had met \>ith foul play. She gave evidence that she .met Tombe; in the summer of 101 P. He stayed with her frequently. She expected to meet Tombe on April 25, 1922, but. instead Dyer oame. Later witness became suspicious and said sue was going to Scotland Yard. Dy<ir ie- , plied that he would blow his brains out.

The second witness was a young p.irl ■who gave evidence that she was engaged to marry Tom be, whom she ii'Ct in April, 1921. She saAV Tom be and Dyer in April,. 1922. They said chey were going to Dyer's country place .next day. She went to Tombe's flajb in. Haymarket and found a Wegram tJiere, saying: "I shall be away. Writing." While she was there Dyerr teietphoned, "and later he came to the fat drunk, and said he did not know where JSric was. Dyer stayed at the that sight. "I left him there next morning, and when I returned in the afternoon I found "Dyer packing Tombe's clothes. He settled Tombe's bill at the I flat and took me and a girl friend out j

to dinner. When he paid the bill he told the owners of the flat that Tombe . lad gone abroad."—A.N.Z.C.A. J