WOMAN DROWNED.
BODY FOUND IN RIVER. VERDICT AT THE INQUEST. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. The body of Mrs. Rosa Boyle, who had been missing since Friday, when she disappeared after bathing in the Walau River, was found yesterday about 15 miles downstream from the place where she is believed to have been drowned. The inquest was resumed this morning, when deceased’s husband, A. p. Boyle, a stock agent, gave evidence that since the birth of the child four months ago deceased had been suffering from insomnia. Later she had been in a rest house in Cashmere, where she was pronounced cured, but on the advice of a doctor, witness took her to ilanmer, where she was perfectly normal, and witness had no cause for anxiety. On Thursday, November 23, they were bathing with others at Marble Point, in I lie Walau river. Witness and deceased bathed there the next day. After a bathe she walked away, and lie did not see her again, it was possible that she had slipped on a rock and fallen in the stream.
The coroner, Mr If". 7\ La wry, returned a verdict of accidental death by drowning.
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19117, 30 November 1933, Page 8
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