INQUEST ON LEG
Found To Belong To Missing Boy By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 23. “The pathologist’s report corresponds exactly with the age and stature of this boy and I am justified in finding that it is part of Basil Rabe,” said the coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., during an inquest on a human leg which was found in the surf at Waiheke Island on March 14. Evidence was given that Basil Rabe, aged 17, and Hazel Fisher, of Marumaru, were reported blown out to sea from near Thames on January 30 and that their bodies had not since been discoveredIn his report, Dr. Gilmour, the pathologist, stated that he estimated that the leg belonged to a male aged about 17. Sergeant Harrison.said that on February 1 a coat had been found entangled in a fisherman’s net at Waiona Bay, and a cigarette case found inside had been identified as Rabe’s. On February 5 the dinghy from which he had been lost was found about three miles north of Kaiau. Since then a watch bad been kept by about 30 fishermen, but nothing further had been found. The natural course of currents and tides would be from the direction of Thames to Waiheke Island.
• The coroner found that the leg belonged to Rabe and returned a verdict of accidental drowning.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 153, 24 March 1939, Page 10
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221INQUEST ON LEG Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 153, 24 March 1939, Page 10
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