SUICIDE AT NICE
Aged Australian Who Feared Blindness (Received 16, 8.45 a.m.) NICE, March 15. An Australian ex-engineer, James Baker, aged 83, who hatt been living on the Riviera for five years, died from knife wounds in the throat. A nurse was helping Baker to dress in an hotel bedrcom preparatory to his going to hospital in order to be treated for threatened blindness owing tto injuries in a car smash in 1933. Baker suddenly snatchel up a penknife, eluded th8 nurse and collapsed, f atally injured. Mrs Baker, aged 75, who was in an adjoining room, collapsed and was sent to hospital critically ill.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBHETR19370316.2.17
Bibliographic details
Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 51, 16 March 1937, Page 4
Word Count
105SUICIDE AT NICE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 51, 16 March 1937, Page 4
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in