MAN FOUND DEAD.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 184, 3 April 1914, Page 3

MAN FOUND DEAD.

A Pukekohe Painter. The dead body of a middle-aged working mao was found lying, face downwards, in a pool of blood in Fort street lane, Auckland, shortly after six o'clock yesterday evening. The body was identified as that of George Montague, a painter, who resided at Otahuhu with his wife and had a branch business in Pukekohe. The deceased, it was ascertained, left his heme at 8 a.m. yesterday tor Auckland in order to catch a boat for Wbakatane. There were indications that the man's nose was broken, and that he had bled profusely. There were also some abrasions on the face. A subsequent medical examination made at the morgue revealed no marks of violence on any otber parts of the body. No money was found on the body, and one cf the man's pockets was turned inside out. His watch and chain were there, but apparently had been jerked out of his pocket by the fall. The theory held at present is that the deceased, although the subject of a prohibition order, spent the money he ha'J in hi 3 posseseion in order to get to Whakatane in drink and fell down as the result of a seizure of some kind. The injuries to his lace could be acjounted for in this way. The police arc not inclined to think that it is a case oi foul play. If robbery had been the motive of a crime the man's watch and chain could have hardly been overlooked. The irxjucot w«b opened to-day.