DROWNED HERSELF WHILE OF UNSOUND MIND.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON. January 3. At the inquest on Mrs Owen, of Petone, her husband, John Toscph Owen, said his wife went out on Sunday morning at 5 o’clock. She could not be found later. Samuel Joines said he saw the deceased acting strangely, apparently out of her mind, on the steps of the Petone wharf, lie went for the police. When he returned the woman was in the water, dead. The jury returned a verdict that death was due to drowning while of unsound mind.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18045, 4 January 1927, Page 12
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