ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
WIFE’S TRAGIC DISCOVERY. (HV TEEEUHAPH CHESS ASSOCIATION.) GISBORNE, Dee. 15. Walter Parminter Barkwith, a married man, 43 years of age and a freezing works employee, rose at 4 o’clcok this morning to get to work early, but was found, ciead at six o’clock outside his dwelling by nis wife, with his throat slit and a butcher’s knife nearby. SEAMAN’S SUDDEN DEATH. GREYMOUTH, Dec. 15. William Henry Smith (66), a single man, ex-sculleryman on the steamer Poolta, who left that ship a week ago and was subsequently arrested for vagrancy and ordered to leave the town, and who left for Westport on foot but returned, was found dead on the steamer Kaiapoi early this morning. Heart failure is presumed to be the cause of death.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 December 1926, Page 11
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127ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 December 1926, Page 11
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