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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 4, 6 January 1938, Page 5

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FOUND DEAD IN ROOM.

WORRIED OVER INCOME.

NO FRIENDS IN AUCKLAND,

Sitting- in a chair in tlie corner of licr room, with a cloak over liead, Mrs. A lis Wood, a widow, aged about 50 years. \vae> found dead in her apartment in St. Paul Street shortly before nine o'clock this morning. At an inquest opened later by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., the keeper of the apartment house, Mrs. Matikia Hose Blackett-, deposed that on entering Mrs. Wood's room about 8.4."> a.m. this morning she found the body as described. The gas had been turned on. Witness called Dr. Kirker, who found life extinct. She knew very little about Mrs. Wood, as the latter was very reserved about herself, but witness understood that she was a widow and had come from Australia. Mrs. Wood had been in receipt of an income, 011 which she had lived without working, but recently that had stopped suddenly, and Mrs.' Wood had been worried about it and had been trying to get work. The stopping of the income had made Mrs. Wood depressed, but when witness saw her and chatted with her shortly after 8 o'clock last night she seemed well and cheerful. Witness knew of no friends that Mrs. Wood had in the city, but had reason to think that she had a friend in Xapier.

The inquest was adjourned for further evidence.