NURSE FOUND DROWNED
VERDICT OF SUICIDE The inquest on Margaret Weir Campbell, a nurse, aged 45, who was found dead on St. Mary’s Bay Beach on the morning of May 12, was concluded by the coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., yesterday afternoon. The deceased’s sister, Christina Campbell, who is also a trained nurse, said that about eighteen months ago her sister had had a blood pressure seizure and had been in bad health ever since. On different occasions she said that she wanted to die, the witness continued, but she showed no definite indications that she might take her own life. The two sisters retired to bed in the same room as usual on the night of Wednesday, May 12, but on waking «at six o’clock next morning Miss Campbell found her sister missing. Police-Sergeant Water found her body lying face downward, in night attire, on the beach about an hour and a-half later. There was every indication that death had been caused by drowning. There were no marks of violence. A verdict of suicide was recorded.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 50, 21 May 1927, Page 14
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178NURSE FOUND DROWNED Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 50, 21 May 1927, Page 14
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