ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 115, 8 October 1914, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FOUND DROWNED. By Telegraph.—Presa Association. Auckland, Last Night. No evidence wag forthcoming to show how Alice Ward, aged about, 32 years, also known as Lindropp, got into the harbor when the Corona's enquiry into the circumstances of Ikt d <ath was coneluded at the morgue this - morning. Yesterday morning the body of the woman was found floating near Nelson street wharf. The woman was fully clad, and clasped in har hand was a small sum of money. When the inI quest .opened this morning, a woman named O'Brien, living in a lane off Nelson street, stated that she had known deceased for nearly two years by the namte of lindropp. Some twelve months ago she was living near witness, but latterly her movement had been uncertain. Witness thought that she *M married. She was rather addicted to drinking whisky. The police are making enquiries into the case, owing to one or two suspicious circumstances connected with it. An examination of the body revealed no external marks of violence, although oh the wrist of the hand in whick tho ■coney was clasped theire were found slight monks which might be consistent with the wrist having been grasped by M aseailant, Deceased was known to tie police, and is stated to have had friends on wow B berthed at the waterfront, and was in the habit of visiting them. The examination revealed signs of alcohol having been taken. i

A BODY FOUND. InveTcargill, Last Night. ' About sevan this evening the body of ft man was found in the Estuary badly decomposed. It wis identified! as Martell John Codkfoum, who had be on ™i g °- ing since September 16.