OLD MAN KILLED
SKULL CRUSHED ON ROCKB SEARCH FOR IMAGINARY GOLD (By Telegraph—Press Association) BLENHEIM, Monday The body of Mr George Edward Clemens (70), an inmate of the Old People's Home, who disappeared from the institution on January 16, was discovered at the Wither Hills yesterday in a dry creekbed beneath a three-foot bank over which he appeared to have fallen, crushing his skull on rocks. Mr Clemens, formerly a goldminer, was under a hallucination that there was gold in the hills near the institution.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20729, 13 February 1939, Page 8
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85OLD MAN KILLED Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20729, 13 February 1939, Page 8
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