VERDICT OF DROWNING.
“No Justification to Hold Anything Else.” CORONER’S COMMENT. (Special to the “ Star.”) *TIMARU, September 23. The inquest into the death of Charles Henry Sloacombe, who had been missing since September 12 and whose body was recovered from the sea at Dashing Rocks on Monday, was resumed to-day. A verdict was returned that Sloacombe was drowned at Timaru on September 12. The Coroner (Mr C. R. Orr-Walker) added that there was no justification to hold anything else. James Patrick Flanagan, bricklayer, who last saw Sloacombe alive, said that Sloacombe was then walking along and looking over the cliff at Dashing Rocks about 11 a.m. on September 12. Witness jocularly remarked to him: “ There’s a better place further up.” Sloacombe did not look in his usual spirits. Deceased's son, Hector Stanley Sloacombe, said that his father had dropped unconscious in his shop the night before he was missed. The shop had not been paying too well and his father had arranged to close it. Witness last saw his father alive at 7.45 a.m. on September 12. He had never heard his father threaten to commit suicide. His father had been in illhealth for some considerable time.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 226, 23 September 1931, Page 7
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197VERDICT OF DROWNING. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 226, 23 September 1931, Page 7
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