"FOUND DROWNED"

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17158, 7 October 1926, Page 8

"FOUND DROWNED"

WELLINGTON MYSTERY RUMORS WITHOUT FOUNDATION (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. At the inquest into the death of Captain Williamson, of the Marama, held bv Mr. Biddcll to-day, Captain Poster, marine superintendent of the Union Co., said deceased arrived in Wellington from Auckland on September 15. He had been specially sent for. He reached the office at 9.35 and left at 9.50. lie was instructed to return at nooiiy but failed to do so. Jn answer to Mr. Brown, who watchej the proceedings on behalf of the widow, witness said that the rumors current about deceased were without foundation and groundless. Any point that needed clearing up had been done to the company's entire satisfaction. Detective Tricklebank said he was talking to deceased, whom he knew well, on the morning of the fifteenth, Deceased appeared to be normal, but a bit tired . after Ins journey. Witness last saw him walking towards Tfaorndon. After evidence of identification, the coroner said there was nothing to show deceased was anything but in normal health. He had been found drowned in Wellington Harbor, but there was no evidence to show how he got into the water.