INQUEST ORDERED

Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1930, Page 6

INQUEST ORDERED

THE SILVERDALE TRAGEDY.: {By Telegraph—Press Association) AUCKLAND, November 15By order of Coroner Hunt, a postmortem examination is to be made on the body of Mrs Linda Rubin a Page, aged 35 years, who was found dead in a waterho.le at Silver-dale yesterday afternoon. This action followed the. inquest, which was opened this morning, and was adjourned sine die after evidence of identification had been given. Mrs Page lived about two miles on the Wade Heads side of Silverdale, and it was her custom to go into the township to buy her provisions. On her way she had to walk over a plank which crossed the tidal creek.

According to the evidence given at the inquest, Edward Cecil Charles Hart weiit to meet Mrs Page, and found her dead in a waterhole three feet deep. Hart explained to the Coroner that Mrs Page was divorced three months ago, and since then he and she had Been living together as man and wife. Hart said that, on arriving at the creek, lie had noticed parcels'oil. the bank. They appeared to have been placed on the, ground. “T could not see any signs of a struggle,'?’ he added, “but there was a mark down the bank from the path to the waterhole. Her hat was by the parcels. There was a bruise on her forehead.”