MOTHER’S TRAGIC DISCOVERY
SON IN GAS-FILLED ROOM SUBSEQUENT DEATH IN HOSPITAL [ Per Press Association.) HASTINGS, Feb. 11. Found ty his mother in an unconscious condition in a gas-filled room in Royston Flats yesterday morning, WtSiam Lawrence Stoddard, single, aged 33. was taken to the Hastings Memorial Hospital, where he died at 10 o’clock last night. Stoddard was living with his mother. Mrs. Halligan, at Royston Fiats. On going into her son's bedroom at 5.45 a.m. yesterday, Mrs. Halligan found him in bed in an unconscious condition. There was a hose pipe leading into the room from a gas meter in the passage and the room was filled with gas. Medical attention was summoned at once and Stoddard was ordered to hospital but he failed to rally. It is understood he had been in bad health for some time. He was an employee of the Railways Department.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 36, 13 February 1939, Page 6
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146MOTHER’S TRAGIC DISCOVERY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 36, 13 February 1939, Page 6
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