ELDERLY MAN DROWNED
A verdict of suicide by drowning was returned by the'coroner. Mr. F. K. jftunt, at an inquest yesterday into the death of Frank Harvey, aged 83, who was seen to fall from a jetty on the waterfront road- on January 25. An engine-cleaner, Norman Vincent Payne, said- he saw deceased on a jetty near the locomotive sheds at 5.30 p.m. He then appeared to jump from the steps harbour. Witness entered the Jwater and returned to the wall with the deceased, artificial respiration beintr applied until an ambulance arrivedHowever, he did'not revive.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23577, 10 February 1940, Page 14
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