MOTOR TRAGEDY
MAN FOUND DEAD IN GAR [Per United Press Association.] • WELLINGTON, November 30. When G. H. Bayliss, a quarryman, was proceeding along the waterfront drive west of Ohiro (Bay about 7 o’clock this morning he noticed a car parked by the side of the road with what appeared to be the body of a man in it. He obtained the assistance of the police, and the door was opened. In tho seat next to the driver’s seat was found the body of Walter Percival Carter (56), who had been living at 65 Cambridge Terrace. Ho had apparently been dead for some hours. The car was parked cose to the cliffs at a point about 400vds from the Happy Valley road junction and some distance from any house. The windows were shut and the doors locked. A rubber tube had been connected to the exhaust pipe and led in through the rear window. The motor had been started, and when the body was found it had stopped either through lack of petrol or through choking. Tho indications are that the car was driven to tho spot at a fairly late hour. An inquest will be held.
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Evening Star, Issue 23128, 30 November 1938, Page 10
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196MOTOR TRAGEDY Evening Star, Issue 23128, 30 November 1938, Page 10
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