INQUEST

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22518, 28 September 1938, Page 7

INQUEST

WOMAN’S DEATH BY DROWNING CORONER’S' FINDING I ' An inquest concerning the death of Alice May Hill, a widow, on August 29. was held yesterday before the Coroner, sdr F. F. Reid, S.M. Medical evidence showed that death had been caused by asphyxia, due to drowning. Further medical evidence was given by Dr. Robinson Hall, who said he had attended Mrs Hill after she had been injured in an accident. On one occasion she had hinted that she hud nothing to live for now that her husband was dead, witness said. Constable A. R. Cruickshank in evidence said he’ had been called to the home’of Mrs Heney and her daughter, who found the body of Mrs Hill in a small creek in front of their homo at 12 Mansfield avenue, St. Albans, vvhere Mrs Hill was living. He was shown into a room where he saw the body of the dead woman on the floor. She was clothed in a nightgown, which was wet and covered with mud, consistent with being in water. Later the witness 'inspected the creek where he found an impression in the bed of the creek that could have been -made by a human body. The finding of the Coroner was that death had been caused in accordance with the medical evidence, and that there was insufficient evidence to show how the woman came to be in the water. ’