ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
MUMPS LEAaB-TO SOEOaXSh-'' Australian-N.Z. Caljle A6oftei£tJßft, Taumarailui, Last 3J3gfct. W. J. Price, Crown l&Ms, Wellington district, left his home fttPHSaka at three o'clock on Sunday ntorttitfg and failed to return. He liad heeh snffering from an aggravated form of mttmpS for a week. As he complained <rf feeling cold, -his wife went to thrVa him h hot poultice, when Bhe heard the click of the door and followed quickly out, but was too late to And her husband. She reported the matter to a neighbor, and search parties were out all Sunday, when a dressing-gown was found' near the Wanganui river, half a mile away. A further search to-day resulted in the body toeing found, at two o'clock, neai the Matapuna railway bridge, about five miles from .Piriaka.
Deceased's temperature was abnormal, and he would have died from the ev .posure, whatever happened. He lea v ei a wife and three children.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 June 1918, Page 4
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155ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, 18 June 1918, Page 4
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