RIVIERA TRAGEDY
AUSTRALIAN'S SUICIDE. [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] NICE, March 15. An Australian, who was formerly an ■engineer, James Baker, aged S 3, who had been living in the Riviera for five years, died of knife-wounds, which he inflicted on his throat. A nurse was helping Baker to dress in an hotel bedroom, preparatory to his going to hospital in order to be treated for threatened blindness owing to injuries ho suffered in a car smash in 1933. Baker suddenly snatched up a penknife, and, having eluded the- nurse, he collapsed, having keen fatally injured. Mrs Baker, aged 75, who was in an adjoining room, then collapsed. She was sent to hospital, critically ill.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 March 1937, Page 7
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