BODY FOUND IN RIVER.
DISAPPEARANCE FROM HOME FATE OF ELDERLY WIDOW. [BI TELEGRAPH.— P&ESS ASSOCIATION.] CHBISTCHUBCH, Sunday. Mrs, Christina Smith, aged 84, a widow, an inmate of the Christchurch Jubilee Home, was drowned in the Heathcoto River this morning. She disappeared from the home at an early hour clad only iu her night attire. Her body was found later in the morning floating in the river a few hundred yards from the home. At the inquest to-day nurses on the staff of the home stated that Mrs. Smith seemed normal this morning, but she had reached a condition of senile decay, and had to be watched carefully. The magistrate said it appeared that Mrs. Smith did not know what she was doing. Ho returned a verdict of found drowned, stating that all possible care had been taken by the staff of the institution, and no blame was attachable ta them.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20597, 23 June 1930, Page 8
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150BODY FOUND IN RIVER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20597, 23 June 1930, Page 8
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