DEATH IN HARBOUR.
INQUEST AT AUCKLAND. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Alarch 4. No evidence disclosing the circumstances of death was produced at an inquest held by Air AVyvern Wilson, S.M., Coroner, into the death of John Joseph McMahon, aged about 45, whose body was found washed up on the Western Reclamation on December 31. Deceased was a retired waterside worker. Patrick Joseph Quin said deceased was of frugal and quiet habits. About tour years ago he gave up work on the wharf to live on his means.
A clerk in the Public Trust Office said that at the time of his death deceased possessed securities in local bodv debentures totalling £1915 and lie 'had also £SBB in the Post Office Savings Bank. “We have here the case of a quiet, well-behaved man. who went out one afternoon and was never seen again,’ said the Coroner. “The pathologist says the cause of death was drowning. There was a slight bruising in the vicinity of the eyes and a small quantity of a drug was in the stomach. On the evidence before me. all I can find is that deceased was found drowned in Auckland harbour on December 31.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 82, 5 March 1935, Page 5
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197DEATH IN HARBOUR. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 82, 5 March 1935, Page 5
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