BODY FOUND IN CAR.
PARKED AT WATERFRONT DRIVE.
A TRAGEDY AT WELLINGTON. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. When Mr G. H. Bayliss, a quarryman, was proceeding along the waterfront drive west of Ohiro Bay about Eleven o’clock this morning lie noticed a, ear parked by the side of the road 'with what apeared to lie the body of a man in it. He obtained the,assistance of the police and the door was opened. In the seat next to the driver’s seat was found the body of Walter Percival, a carter, aged -56- who has been living at 65 Cambridge Terrace, he apparently bad been dead some hours. The car was parkted close to the cliffs at a point- 400 yards from the Happy Valley Road Junction, and some distance from any house. It was a sedan with shut windows and locked door. A rubber tube had been connected to the 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.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 43, 30 November 1938, Page 5
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