A STRANGE STORY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 123, 17 October 1914, Page 4

A STRANGE STORY.

FOUND DROWNiED. ' ! By Telegraph.—Press Association. ' Auckland, Last 'l A singular story was related to Mr. Outlen, S.M., at tb e resumed inquest on the body of Alice Ward', alias Lindrop,. aged about 34 venrs, who was found in tlie haibor near the Nelson street wharf. An examination of the body, showed that tihe women died from drowning, that she had' been drinking considerably; that there were aJbnwiond on one wrist as if she had been gripped! roughly, and that a small sum of monem was held tigMy in one hand. Frank Taylor, a seaman aboard t3l<S scow Albatross, gave e-wdenoa with* showed that deceased was a frcqueirt visitor to .'the n:en aboard the scow, and that for two or thro nitfhU previous to tlip fatality she slept aboard the albatross with witness and a man named Christiansen. Late on iihe night in quest'on witness wa„ returtiiiio; to his Ueow, m a drunken condition, when lie met deceased, who bad been on another scow, and whoi said she had nowhere to sleep. Witness Hied to takv. her aboard a scow rolled the, Winnie, but was ordered oft", anil lie then wenlt aboard the Albatross, whh-h was elo*<> 'hy. The woman, in attempting to follow him, fell between the fcow and the wharf. Witness leaned over, seized Her wrisit, and tried to dra<r her out, I>ut could not do so. As no help was forthcoming he let her go ami wont below, but failed to rouse Christianfien from hi ri drunken sleep, as had ,i drink of beer and himself turned in. This witness was severely handled in nh« police examination and dec'ared he could not account for the fact that Me woman had nionev clasped in her hand wh.-„ taken front the water. TTe was drunk 01 would no:, have acted as he did.

The ino.ucs( -,yi, adjourned until lomovrow.