YOUTH'S TRAGIC DEATH

NZ Truth, Issue 1262, 6 February 1930, Page 7

YOUTH'S TRAGIC DEATH

Elements of Mystery Attend Student's Fatal End

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Dunedin Eepresentative.)

Peculiar circumstances surround the death of "William Manderson Stothart, aged 20 years, who' was employed as a cadet m the bacteriological and pathological department at the Medical School, and resided with his parents at 21, Marion Street; Caversham.

rpHE information so far available dis--1 closes that at about 9.30 on-Wed-nesday evening of last ..week, young Stothart. bade a cheerful , goodnight to his parents and grandmother and retired, to his room. The rest of the household partook of a. light supper and then prepared for their night's rest. Half an hour after the lad had departed, the mother,! Mrs. Annie May Stothart, while m her bedroom, heard moans from the direction of her son's room. With her husband, she went to investigate and found William clad m his pyjamas and m bed, moaning. fiit first the parents thought the youth was suffering from a night- /■: ."•■... . ■ ■

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