FALL TO DEATH IN SYDNEY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 6 December 1938, Page 7

FALL TO DEATH IN SYDNEY

INQUEST ON N.Z. WOMAN OPEN FINDING RETURNED fU I’A.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright' SYDNEY, sth December. The coroner to-day inquired into the circumstances attending the death of Miss Muriel Hare, aged 35, Dunedin. New Zealand, who was Hilled when she fell from a fourth story window of the Hotel Australia in Sydney on 26th November. The medical evidence revealed that Miss Hare was suffering from a “depressive neurosis.” but she gave no indication of suicidal tendencies. Mrs Adeline Beckett, of New Zealand a sister of the deceased, said in evidence that Miss Hare had an electromedical institute in Dunedin. She must have been making between £IOOO and £ISOO a year and "was blessed with everything she could want.’ There was therefore no reason for suicide. The coroner, recording an open finding. said that he was unable to ascertain from the evidence whether it was a case of accident or suicide. There were strong suggestions that Miss Hare took her own life, yet there seemed to be no reason for such an act. “1 find it difficult to understand,' he said, “how a person could fall accidentally From the roof of the Hotel Australia. which is protected by a parapet save for one small gap where a handbag was found, and not one person saw her leap to the roadway.’’