FARMER’S REMAINS FOUND

Evening Star, Issue 22327, 1 May 1936, Page 2

FARMER’S REMAINS FOUND

PARTLY BURNT IN FIRE [Pki? United Pkess Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, April 30. A human body partly consumed by fire was found in the smouldering ruins of a house at Swamp road, Ainucrley, this morning, nnd near the body was "a double-barrelled shot gun. The body is believed by the police to bo that of Frederick John Stanton, single, aged 51, a farmer, who had been living alone in the house for two years. The discovery was made at 8.30 a.m. by Mr Brooke, the driver of a cream truck. On Wednesday evening Stanton played cards at the house of a neighbour, Mr J. Belcher, until 10.30, when he left for his home. The house was of six rooms. It was built GO years ago. and was left to Stanton hv his mother two years ago. He farmed 30 acres of land'surrounding the hopse, but had been in ill-health for several months. Seven years ago lie suffered a fracture of the skull in a fall from a horse while hunting, and he frequently said that this had left a permanent effect on him.