FOUND DEAD IN CREEK
THROAT CUT AND SANDBAG TIED ROUND NECK TRAGEDY NEAR WAIROA Press Association WAIROA, Today. William Richard Snell, a married man. employed by the Public Works Department at Waihua, was found in a creek yesterday afternoon with hi 3 throat cut and a sandbag: wired round his neck. He had been in ill-health for some time. He had told his wife, who keeps the cookhouse, that he was going for firewood. Anxiety was felt later when he failed to return. A search was made and his body was found. An inquest ■will be held this afternoon.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 910, 1 March 1930, Page 1
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