SELF-ASPHYXIATION
Man Breathes Car Exhaust A verdict that Walter Howard Ferdinando, taxi driver, of Wellington, asphyxiated himself purposely by inhaling carbon monoxide gas while sitting in his closed motor-car at Makara beach on February 2 was entered by Mr. E. Gilbertson, J.P., at an inquest into the death yesterday. The evidence showed that Ferdinando had been found lying on the front seat of the taxicab dead. The engine was running, and the exhaust pipe from the silencer had been replaced with a flexible tube which led the gas into the body of the car through a hole in the floor. A friend of Ferdiuando said that when he saw the latter a few hours before he was found dead he seemed in his usual spirits, but handed him a sealed packet which he said was not to be opened unless anything happened to him. The envelope was opened in a police station and found to contain a.will bequeathing the car to the friend, and a letter giving instructions and advice to be followed after his death.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 115, 8 February 1935, Page 8
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176SELF-ASPHYXIATION Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 115, 8 February 1935, Page 8
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