RETIRED MAN’S DEATH
Telegraph Boy’s Discovery ENTERED WRONG HOUSE By Telegraph.—Press Association. Gisborne, April 11. A gruesome discovery was made by a telegraph’ messenger this afternoon, when by a mistake he entered the wrong house in one of the main streets on the outskirts-of the town to deliver a telegram. Opening the door, the messenger saw the dead body of a man in pyjamas lying in the passage. Death apparentlyhad take place about three weeks previously. . , , r ... Deceased was Mr. Robert Marshall, 61 years of age, a single retired farmer, formerly of Waimata Valley. He lived by himself. Mr. Marshall was last seen by a neighbour on March 20. He had been in delicate health for some years. Relatives of Mr. Marshall are brothers in North Auckland, Napier, Havelock and Waipukurau, and sisters at Waerengaahika and Wellington.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 168, 12 April 1932, Page 10
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137RETIRED MAN’S DEATH Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 168, 12 April 1932, Page 10
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