FOUND DEAD.
BOY'S STARTLING DISCOVERY. ■$& Between eight and nine o'clock; evening a boy named Albert Edgar aaif/f? the dead body of a middle-aged iMa'.«f lying on tile river bank off Swann'e | Richmond, and a revolver lying the body. The man had been, through the mouth, % the pointing to a case of suicide. Fle-vellyn, stationed ait Richmond, •moHif? . informed, and the body, wea removed tff&jsf the Christohurch morgue. t ? ? Y.J$ The boy states that he previously wr $M the man in fhe same attitude in same place exactly a week but did not make any close &■ thinking that he drunk. state ot the body Constable is of opinion that tho man was dead when tne boy first saw him. , a letter found in the body, the name is supposed to be Lawson, bat is only a conjecture. Apparently enquiries had been made during the week as to any man believed toTb^^J The date of the inquest has been fixed. -.'' '..! . M .,: ;, ' ; »^^lfe
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12378, 18 December 1905, Page 8
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