OLD MINER’S END
FOUND DEAD IN CREEK BED. FATAL FALL OVER BANK. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, February 12. The body of George Edward Clemens, aged 70, an inmate of the Old People’s Home, who disappeared from the institution on January 16, was discovered in the Wither Hills yesterday, in a dry creek bend, beneath a three-foot bank, over which he appeared to have fallen, crushing his skull on the rocks. Mr Clemons, who was formerly a goldminor. was under the hallucination that there was gold in the hills near the institution.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1939, Page 5
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91OLD MINER’S END Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1939, Page 5
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