DEAD IN STREET
CRIPPLE’S BODY SUPPORTED BY CRUTCHES. CROWDS IN IGNORANCE. A dead man stood upright against a wall in a busy Sydney street for 20 minutes on afternoon recently, unheeded by passing city crowds. The body, that of John Lambert, or Lee, 72 years of age, who had lived in a city residential, was supported by crutches, Lee being a cripple. It stood against the wall of a hotel. Hurrying pedestrians brushed against the body without disturbing it One man eventually reported to a constable that “the cripple looked
sick.” The constable saw that Lambert was dead and gently lowered the body to the pavement. He summoned the ambulance and doctors said that Lambert had been dead for 20 minutes before the constable saw him. Death was due to natural causes.
The Police Department is now seeking Lambert’s relatives. He is believed to have come from New Zealand.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1938, Page 5
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149DEAD IN STREET Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1938, Page 5
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