ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
THE DANNEVIRKE MOTOR FATALITY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dannevirke, Wednesday. Regarding the motor fatality at the Piripiri crossing yesterday, Roy Horace Dean, son of the late Eclwin Harland Dean, solicitor, Wellington, was returning from a visit to his mother in Wellington. He had been presented with the car and was motoring through to Napier. Miss Sweetapple, his fiancee, came from Napier, and joined Dean at Dannevirke. She had only been in his company for half an hour when the accident occurred. An inquest-frill be held' to-m-orrbw. The funeral takes place at Wellington on Friday. Deceased was 21 years of age.
SUICIDE IX A HOTEL. Wellington, Last Night. A man named F. L. Armstrong, lately manager of fhe Commercial Howl, Paliiatua, arrived in Wellington on Monday evening, and went to stop at the Pier Hotel. He was last seen about 5 o'clock last night, and his room* being found locked at 9 o'clock this morning, one of the servants climbed the fire escape and gained accss by means of a window. There he found Armstrong lying on the bed with his throat cut. He 'liadj evidently been dead for several hours, as the body was quite cold. Deceased wrote a note to a friend in which he announced his intention of taking his life. Armstrong bad been in the Dominion for a little over a year. It is understood that he was a married man with a wife residing in. England.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 309, 22 May 1913, Page 5
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