DROWNED IN A DRAIN.
FATALITY ON A FARM. *«« • •, ;' v •_ •' . '. ' "• \ 'V HUSBAND'S TRAGIC DISCOVERY. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN COBBESPONDENT.] TE A WAMUTU, Friday. An inquest was held this afternoon into the death of Caroline Martin, wife of a Mangapiko farmer, before the coroner, Mr. J. B. Te-asdale. The evidence showed that the deceased left her house in drizzling rain about 5.30 last evening, and not returning by 7 o'clock her husband looked for her. Crossing a paddock toward a clump of tea-tree, where he believed she might have been sheltering, he found her lying about 200 yards from her home with her head in a small field drain and her' face in about six inches of water. She had probably slipped down a slippery bank, and having been rendered unconscious was drowned. The medical evidence showed that she had been in indifferent health for some months. She went to Palmerston North early in December returning last Saturday very much brighter. A verdict was returned of found drowned, there being no evidence to show how she got into the drain.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18641, 23 February 1924, Page 8
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