WALKED TO DEATH IN HIS SLEEP.
MAN SEVERS ARTERY IN ARM (By Telegraph—J J ress Association.;/ GISBORNE, Last Night. An unusual accident befel a single man named Trevor Gerard, aged 25, employed on a road contract at Te Wera, near Matavvai, who died in the Cook Hospital this morning ffftm a severed artery, the result of walking in his sleep. The occupants of the house in which he lived were wakened in the early hours yesterday morning on hearing a disturbance and the sound of crashing glass. There was a big hole in the window and Gerard was found at the front door apparently still walking in his sleep. He was bleeding profusely from a severe wound on the fleshy part of his arm -which he had apparently put through the glass window. He was removed to Cook Hospital last evening, but died this morning.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 April 1938, Page 7
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