SOME EXTRAORDINARY EVIDENCE

West Coast Times, 17 February 1914, Page 2

SOME EXTRAORDINARY EVIDENCE

DROWN*:)* THKOI CH ItKCKUIStv XKSS. [MB BKKBS rOKVBIUHI.] WAN I'A.Vn. Keh. IC. Kxlrnoridn.irt o idenee wit given «l tin* inquest 10-ilny touching tin* death of ,i roadman nam. f llert .(ini**., who was drowned in >li. liver (it Kawhaiki on Tuesday !:>•*(. Timothy llngau staled tlmt deceased anil In*. w)n> w. iv engaged in roadmaking. wnil>nl tn I’jinpfingara Hotel, where tliev •*t;iv,i| till noon. They had fmir nr tivi lung beers and they look away with ilinie three bottles of beer mnl nil” (mnfe of whisky, Rome of whieh they drank on hie wav to ramp. They I'e.iclieii a quint on the r ver oje lioslie the eanip alemt 4.." and railed for the eanoe lan who brought a eanoe arms*. Hagan 'refused to enter it, thinking the rraft unsafe. Jones, however, went in ihe eanoe whieh he roek.-d till it rap^lgej. Tlie hoy swam ashore to get assistance for Jones, who was getting on the bottom of the up-turned eanoe, hut when he returner! Jones had sunk. A jadire constable said he had made . nquifia* at the hotel and was satisfied the men were sober when they Ml there, A half-filled bottle of whisky wa- found on the body. The Coroner returned a yerdiet that deeeased was areidenlallv drowned, ihrough hie „wn recklessness. while unit r the inlliienee of drink.