DOCTOR'S TRAGIC DEATH.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10153, 25 November 1910, Page 6

DOCTOR'S TRAGIC DEATH.

BODY FOUND ON THE DAY OF HIS WIFE'S FUNERAL.

The body of Dr. Walter Scrover, of Mintern House, New North road, Hoxton, N., has , been found after he has been missing since September Ist. The telegram announcing the discovery reached London within an hour of the time fixed for Mi;s Strover's funeral. She had been a helpless paralytic invalid for years, and had died ten days after his departure from home. "Her death," said a friend, "was probably Hastened by grief." The;doctor's body was found much decomposed at a lonely spot near Sandy, in Bedfordshire, by a male nurse, who Summoned the police. A doctor was at once fetched, who, by a coincidence, - happened to be Dr. W. Strover's younger brother, who practises at Sandy. He, however, failed to recognise the body. The man had apparently opened the arteries of his wrists with a small pocket knife found near Iy, and had bled to death. Dr. Walter Strover wai fifty-six years of age, and was at one time medical officer of health for Chingford. For twenty years he had been established in practice at Hoxton,and at one time was considered fairly well off. Latterly, however, the practice had .declined. He gave his fortune to the poor of the district.