FOUND DEAD IN BATH
t INQUEST ON MIDDLE AGED 1 WOMAN (By Telegraph—Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Helena Rose Watson, married, aged 52 years, was found dead in a bath at her home. The inquest opened before Mr Mosley, coroner, Frank Watson, a labourer, her husband, said that at about 10 p.m. on Saturday he went to bed, when his wife brought him a cup of tea, saying that she was going to have a bath. Witness drank the tea and went to sleep. He woke at 2 a.m. and on finding his wife not in bed lie went to the bathroom where he found her dead in: the bath. Witness thought his wife had: had a bath and had died before she had been able to get dressed. The bath was empty but a towel was lying alongside it and had apparently been used. The inquest was adjourned sine die pending the result of a post mortem examination.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 5 January 1931, Page 4
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