FOUND DEAD.
SUDDEN DEATH, RIVERHEAD.
Mr Woolley, manager of a flaxmill at Riverhead, was found dead in his room about noon yesterday. Constable Foreman was informed Of the Occurrence, and upon proceeding there he found the body in a room at Lamb's old mill. Deceased has a wife, who resides ab Takapuna.
Mr James Donaldson,who discovered the body, Bbates : "I am in charge of the men afc the Riverhead Flaxmill, and deceased was manager. I last saw him alive about 11 p.m. on Wednesday night, ab the mill. He then appeared all right. As far as I knew deceased had nob been ill. Mr Woolley had a bunk ab the old mill. Ab 8 a.m. yesterday morning I wenb to his room, and seeifte; that he was lying down I did not disturb him. About 10.45 a.m. I again wont wibh letters, bub on calling I (job no answer. Upon going bo him I found he was dead. Ho was then lying on the floor alongside the bunk, and had his boots and socks off. Deceased was 48 years of ad*." .
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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 290, 6 December 1889, Page 3
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