ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16567, 3 June 1914, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

• A SINGULAR CASE. DEATH FROM EXPOSURE. [Per Press- Association-.] DUNEDIN, June 2. Mr C. C. Graham, coroner, held an inquest this morning on the body of Robert Martin Orosbie, found in tho bush off Dundas Street on Sunday afternoon on the. evening of May 20. Orosbie, who was manager, of Messrs Burt's factory, left Port Chalmers by the 5.15 train for his home in Cumberland Street, Dunedin, but was not heard of again until the body was discovered. The evidence showed that the deceased apparently got off the train at Pelichet Bay. There was no sign of a struggle where the body was found. A number of matches, some used and some riot, seemed to indicate that the deceased had been trying to find his way out of tho bush. . A verdict, was returned of death from exposure, deceased having temporarily lost his memory arid so been unable to iind his way home-