FOUND DROWNED.

Otago Witness, Issue 2370, 3 August 1899, Page 28

FOUND DROWNED.

j IDENTIFICATION OF THE BODY FOUND ! IN THE HARBOUR. : The body which was picked up in the harbour on Wednesday, tho 26th, has been identi- , fied as that of a single man named Alfred ' Trownson, who was born on May 29, 1870, at Cornwall, England. An inquest was held on Thursday afternoon at the Wharf .Hotel, before Mr E. H. jCarew, and a jury of six, of whom Mr C. W. Smith was chosen foreman. Henry Drake, farmer, Signal Hill, gave evidence that deceased had been in his employ. Witness identified" the body by the clothes, "but owing to the advanced stage of decomposition he could not recognise the features. He was certain, however, that the body was that of Alfred Trownson. Deceased was born in Cornwall, and had been about four years in the colonies. Witness last saw him alive on June 1. After hie dinner he told the children that he was going to Ravensbourne for some beer. Witness ssw him going over the hills towards Ravensbourne, and that was the last lie saw of him. Thomas Horn, carter, gave evidence that he recognised tlie body as that of Alfred Trownson, whom he had known for four years. He last saw him alive at the corner of Cumberland and Frederick streets on June X, about 6.30 pjn. He had been speaking to him for half an hour. He was not sober at the time, nor yet " tight," but had had " one or two." Witness did not see him again. The approaches lo the bridge on the road to Ravensbourne were j dangerous in witness's opinion. The sides of the road sharjily converged to the bridge, and a person who was under the influence of drink might very easily step over the embankment in a dark night and fall into the swift current. David Morris, wharf labourer, of Dunedin, said he was on the wharf on the preceding afternoon, when they got word from the harbour steamer Onslow that there was a body in the bay. He and another man got a boat, and found the body between the tongue wharf and the dolphin. They took it out, and it was handed over to the police. Constable Moore gave evidence that the only mark he could , discover on the body was a small cut in the skin, about ljin long under the chin. The body was greatly decomposed. A verdict of " Found drowned " was returned, j

As a man and his wife were travelling to Launceeton, Tasmania, by railway recently the man was run over and killed. His wife was too drunk to understand the unfortunate oircumstanoe when told about it, and she did not recover her proper senses for some time afterwards*