EXTRAORDINARY TRAGEDY
MAN’S DEATH IN CLOSED CAR. (Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) BRISBANE, Sept. 1. An extraordinary tragedy was disclosed at Meebang Avhen Roland Macka.y, aged 30, was found at the wheel of a closed car, which had been filled with poisonous fumes. The lifeless body was in a sitting position, but a local resident remembered having seen the machine in the same spot and the position of the body was unchanged 12 hours previously. Police examination revealed the fumes issued from a piece of piping Avhich Avas jammed through a hole in the floor near the back seat. This piping Avas joined to a rubber hose, the end of which Avas attached to the exhaust pipe. It is believed Mackay was rendered unconscious by a sleeping draught or drug and met his death while in that state.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1930, Page 5
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142EXTRAORDINARY TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1930, Page 5
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