FATE OF SEA COOK
OPEN VERDICT GIVENLOST IN BAY OF PLENTY (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last; night. An inquest was hold at. Auckland before Mr. Wvvern Wilson, SAL, today into the supposed death of George Leaden, cook of the trawler James Cosgrove, who disappeared from the vessel in the Bay of I’lent v on May HI.
Captain Blett said Leaden was a member of the new when the vessel sailed from Auckland on -May HI. About (i.-1f) p.m. on May HI, when (he ship was in the Bay of Plenty, it was reported to him that Leaden was missing. He turned back and retraced the ship’s course for an hour and ahalf and ordered a search of the ship. The witness knew of no reason why Leaden should jump overboard, but the deceased had complained of stomach troubles. The deceased had been cook aboard the vessel for 12 months. He was a single man. The coroner found that the deceased died when he was lost overboard, but the evidence was not sufficient to show whether he fell overboard or committed suicide by drowning.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19098, 20 August 1936, Page 8
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