PROFESSOR’S DEATH.
LIVED AS A RECLUSE. Professor Walter Reid, one of the most brilliant of English scientists, whose researches led to the discovery of smokeless gunpowder, died at the Kingston Infirmary, where he was taken by the police who found him unconscious and alone in a house at Addleston. His hair hung below his sliouldeTs, and his beard was below his waist. He liyed the life of a recluse, and never answered the door. The tradesmen had not seen him for two years.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 2, 2 December 1931, Page 5
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