GAS-FILLED ROOM.
YOUNG MAN DIES LATER.
TRAGEDY AT HASTINGS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) HASTINGS, this day. Found bv his mother in ail unconscious condition in a gas-lilled room at Royston Flats yesterday morning, William Lawrence Stoddard, single, aged 33, was taken to the Hastings Memorial Hospital where he died at 10 o'clock last night.
Mr. Stoddard was living with his mother, Mrs. Halligan, at Royeton Flats.
On going into lier son's bedroom at 3.45 a.lll. yesterday, Mrs. Halligan found him in bed in an unconscious condition. There was a hose pipe leading into the room from the gas meter in the passage, and the room was tilled with gas.
Med'ical attention was summoned at once, and Mr. Stoddard was ordered to hospital, but failed to rally.
It is understood he had been in bad health for some time. He was an employee of the Railways Department.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 35, 11 February 1939, Page 10
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