INQUEST ON LEG

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14091, 24 March 1939, Page 4

INQUEST ON LEG

FOUND AT WAIHEKE ISLAND

CONNECTED WITH THAMES BOATING MISHAP.

Electric Telegraph—Press association AUCKLAND, Last Night.

“The pathologist’s report corresponds exactly with the age and stature of this boy and I am justified in finding that it is part ot Kabe said the coroner, Mr 1 . lv Hunt during the inquest on a human (eg which was found in the suit at Waiheke Island on March 14. Evidence was given that Basil ttabr aged 17, and Hazei I' 1 slier, ot Marumaru, were reported Mowni out to sea from near Thames on January 30 and that their bodies Had not since been discovered. In his report Dr Gilmour. pathologist, stated that he * estimated the leg belonged to a male aged about 17. Sergeant Harrison said that on February 1 a coat had been found entangled in a fisherman s net at llaiona Bav and a cigarette case found inside lias been identih«l as Babe s. On February 5 the dinghy Horn which he had been lost was lound about three miles north ° f Since then a watch had been kept by about 30 fishermen but nothing lur tlier had been found. The natural course of the currents and tides would he from the direction of Thames to Waiheke Island. The coroner found that the leg belonged to Rabe and returned a verdict of accidental drowning.