CEMETERY TRAGEDY
TERRIBLE DEATH SUFFERED. (Australian Press Association) (United Service). (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 25. With wrists and throat gashed by barbed wire, Herbert Westcrman, 28, lay for four days behind a headstone in Rooßwood Cemeteiy suffering a terrible lingering death. He died soon after discovery yesterday afternoon. Westcrman was found in a pool of blood with bloodstained barbed wire alongside. He had gone there to end his fife. He also swallowed poison to speed death.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1929, Page 5
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80CEMETERY TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1929, Page 5
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