Shocking Death.
(Per Press Association.) Auckland. Oct. 6. James Franks, a miner, aged 19, who arrived from Waitekauri at midday, where he had been working, took a room at the Waverly Hotel for the night on the fourth storey. Shortly before dinner, 6 p.m., the noise of a tailing body was heard in the yard. Ongoing oat the people were horrified to find Franks lying in a pool of blood, having fallen out of his bedroom window, a distance of 70ft. Marks were found of his having lain on the bed, and he must have lifted up his window and gone out. He brought a cheque ol £11 with him, and it is stated that he had only had some lemonade tinged with beer in the afternoon. -__ M^___—
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 85, 7 October 1896, Page 2
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