A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 165, 12 January 1914, Page 8

A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.

DOCTOR FOUND IM:OXtiCJo!.>. HIS CONDITIO* CRITICAL By Telegraph".—Press .W>cia(i.s>i. Auckland, January 1!, Doctor F. W. King, a well-k;:!, ■r; Auckluiul practitioner, was the vie!in- u! a mysterious and very severe ae<idn:l lii-1 evening, about nine o'clock. The motorman of a tram car, when dcKuid ing at U'clleslcy street, noticed the body of a man lying near tin- othe:' h t of rails and stopped his car to investigate. Major Plugsje, and a member of the New Zealand Coin-, w ho were Iho first to render assistance., found that tlio man was Dr. Kin;:. who k.iS insensible and bleeding profusely Ironi the right car, but there were w/niiuks of violence on the head. The police having been summoned. Dr. King was taken on a stretcher ft; his home in Syinond, street, where 1)/, \\. 11. Parks pronounced his case to be one of severe fracture of ihe huso of Wio skull, and ordered him to the hospiit:!. This afternoon Dr. King was tti!!. in an unconscious con<lition,"and his <;,ve was considered very critical. How Iho accident occurred is not known, but it has been suggested that Dr. King may have fallen from a tram ear. .No one, however, appears to Kr.e seen any such occurrence.