FOUND DROWNED
Woman at Oriental Bay
An inquest was held yesterday, at the Magistrate’s Court, on Eva Jenson, aged 56, a married woman, who died in the vicinity of. Oriental Bay between 3.30 p.m. on January 2(j and 5.30 on the following morning. Her body was discovered by Henry Burrows, who noticed it in the water when he was gathering wood to tlie north of the band rotunda on the morning of January 27. Dr. P. P. Lynch, pathologist at the Wellington Hospital, said that! death nad been due to drowning. Certain abrasions on the face indicated that the woman might have fallen into the harbour and been drowned while stunned. Doris Fitzgerald Jenson, the daughter, said that her mother had been in hospital for three weeks undergoing treatment for catarrh, and had come out immediately before her death. In her opinion her mother had had np intention to commit suicide. The coroner, Mr. E. Gilbertson, returned a verdict of “found drowned.” adding that there was no evidence to show how she came to be in the water. Senior-Sergeant D. L. Calwell conducted the case on behalf of the police.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 109, 1 February 1935, Page 13
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190FOUND DROWNED Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 109, 1 February 1935, Page 13
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