MAN FOUND DEAD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1938, Page 6

MAN FOUND DEAD

INSIDE LOCKED CAR. DISCOVERY IN WELLINGTON SUBURB. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. When G. H. Bayliss, a quarryman, was proceeding along the waterfront drive west of Ohiro Bay at about 7 o’clock this morning, he noticed a ear parked by the side of the road with what appeared to be the body of a man in it. He obtained the assistance of the police and the car door was opened. In the seat next to the driver’s seat was found the body of Walter Percival Carter, aged 56, who had been living at 65 Cambridge Terrace. He had apparently been dead for some hours. The car was parked close to Cliff’s Point, 400 yards from the Happy Valley Road junction ar.d some distance from any house. It is a sedan and the windows were shut and the doors locked. A rubber tube had been connected to the car's exhaust pipe and led in through the rear window. The motor had been started and left to idle. When the body was found the motor had stopped, either through, lack of petrol or through choking. The indications are that the car was driven to the spot at a fairly late hour. An inquest will be held.