AN OFFICER'S SUDDEN DEATH.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 734, 5 February 1910, Page 6

AN OFFICER'S SUDDEN DEATH.

(By Telegraph.—Presa ■ ApsociationJ Marton, February 1 Yesterday at Rata, Major Saunders, well blown throughout the district in .connection with military matters, was arrested "by Constable Gray, of Hunbernlle, on a charge of having committed a certain offence While being conveyed to Huntorville Major Saunders suddenly dropped dead on the road. An inquest was held att Rata to-day. A. verdict was returned that death was due to syncope through some poison. A portion of'the internal organi will be sent to the public analyst Deceased .left: a .number, of. letters'relating' to the case, showing that suicide was promeditated

Feilding, February i. Major Saunders was a angle man, over fifty years of age, and lived in a whare. Owing to certain suspicions circumstances it was decided to relieve him of his duties. (By Telesraph.—Prora AwoclationJ

, ■ 1. ; The' Wanganui • "Chxonide's" travelling, correspondent telegraphs .that ■ a rumour in the Hunterville district says that Major launders was .'in reality the: owner, of a title, and' a. member ■of a well-known English ■■ aristocratio family; : According, to the correspondent, the residents of the. district' in which ; Saunders lived claim: that the known circumstances of- his :iife are such as to tally' with those :of the •individual with"whom'-'rumour identified >hinu-:- : ' "';'•'•'''.■'! ! "•'■■'''".":, '.'■'„ ■. '.■.■'.