DROWNED WHILE IN A FIT.
FATALITY AT TAHUNA. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) MORRINSVILLE, this day. Walter Wolfenden, aged 23, a single man, employed as a farm labourer, wag missed from his home at Tahuna an Friday evening, and his dead body was found in the Piako River on Sunday afternoon. An "inquest was held Testerday, when evidence was sriven that deceased had suffered since childhood from epileptic fits. The man's face had been bruised, and the opinion was expressed that he had had a fit and struck the gunwale of a boat as he fell into the river, being stunned, and was drowned. A verdict tvaa returned that drtv-ased wag accidentally drowned while suffering from an epileptic fit.
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 27, 1 February 1921, Page 5
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