Mystery of Girl's Death

NZ Truth, Issue 1232, 11 July 1929, Page 7

Mystery of Girl's Death

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Auckland Eepresentative). ■WHAT is the riddle — if riddle there be — against the background of circumstances involving the collapse and death m a private home of a young woman named Freda Clarke? During the inquest which followed, m November last, the coroner had the greatest difficulty m eliciting any statements from witnesses, who refused, on legal adyice, to give any information whatsoever that might have the tendency to incriminate themselves. The proceedings were continued on Wednesday last, and concluded within five minutes of their commencement. So secretive were the authorities that when a "Truth" representative went up to Mr. Hunt's room, inquiring whether an inquest was fixed for that day, he replied: "No, there is nothing more — I have finished for the day." Yet, m spite of this assurance, the inquest was opened almost immediately afterward.s, Mr. Hunt" saying: "There is no further evidence, and I can find no other verdict but that of death m accordance with the medical evidence." But why this secrecy? What malevolent influence lay behind this girl's unhappy death? See next week's issue of "N.Z. Truth" for full story. Nnniiniiniiiimiiiiiimmmiiiiniimiiiiiiiiiiimiimiumiiiiiuiminuiiimm