ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
A MYSTERIOUS DEATH. Per Press Association. Gisborne, February 22. At an early hour last Thursday morning a middle-aged man, named Thomas Wallace, was found dead with his throat cut in the house of Samuel English, a laborer, living in Delatous Road, Kaiti. At the inquest it was stated that the deceased had been drinking, but after a long and exhaustive enquiry the coroner was unable to find evidence to show how tne deceased came by l the wound in his throat, and returned an open verdict. This was on Friday last. On Sunday morning English, on visiting the scene of the rtagedy, found a calendar for 1915 lying on the grass outside the back door. On the back of it was an unsigned message in pencil, supposed to have been written by the deceased, and pointing to, it is thought, intentions of suicide. Counsel for English has now approached the Minister for Internal Affairs, requesting permission to have this and other evidence heard, and the inquest-re-opened.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 45, 24 February 1915, Page 8
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168ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 45, 24 February 1915, Page 8
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