CAR UPSIDE DOWN IN LAGOON
BODY OF MAN INSIDE. fßy Telegraph, Per Pres# Association. ' ' DUNEDIN, January 4. Tt was reported to the police this morning that a. car upside down was lying in a lagoon about a mile on the Port Chalmers side of St. Leonards. On arrival of the police at the spot the car was righted, and it was found that the body of a man, since identified as that of John Charles Styche, was inside. Rigor mortis had set in and the man evidently had been dead for a number of hours. Styche, a single man, aged twentytwo, boarded in South Dunedin. His parents resided at Port Chalmers. An inquest will be opened to-morrow morning.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1931, Page 6
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