DEATH FROM STARVATION.
[PRESS ASSOCIATION TELBOKAM.J INVERCARGILL, July 31
Yesterday afternoon Constable O’Leary, etvioned in North Invercargill, was called on by Thomas Brandford, jnho informed him that a tenant of his, named MoWalt, was lying in a house in en apparently dying condition. The constable went and found McWatt dead, but there were no marks upon his person to indicate foul play or accident. The house was, however, entirely destitute of property and food, with the exception of a portion of a turnip, which had evidently been bitten by some one, presumably by deceased. It is said McWatt was last seen alive by Mr Goodsir, an undertaker, who was in the locality yesterday forenoon, and called at the house in search for Brandford, with whom he had business. The dead man is a mere skeleton, and the constable is of opinion that he disd of starvation. McWatt has, it is said, been following the vocation of an insurance agent or canvasser for some time past, and in that and other capacities was pretty generally known about town. An inquest will be held in due course.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2594, 31 July 1882, Page 3
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185DEATH FROM STARVATION. Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2594, 31 July 1882, Page 3
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