RAILWAY GUARD'S DEATH
i iiv TKJ,Ki;KA.fH.—riu:s- assitiatiok.] Wellington, This Day. About 3.30 yesterday afternoon, Robert T. Styles, a railway guard cn the Wellington-Auckland express, was observed by two ladies in the Bolton street cemetery, lying on the bank with blood flowing freely from a wound in his head. An investigation show.ed deceased was quite dead. Near the right hand was a loaded revolver, one chamber of the seven being dis charged. There was a bullet wound in the roof of the mouth. Deceased was aged between 10 and 50 and leaves a widow and one child.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 327, 11 January 1911, Page 5
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96RAILWAY GUARD'S DEATH King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 327, 11 January 1911, Page 5
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