A GRUESOME FIND.
IN A DANNEVIRKE PADDOCK. Shortly before mid-day yesterday the Dannevirke police reived advice that the body of a middle-aged man had been found in.a paddock at tne lower end of Princess street, with the throat cut. i:*tir> Constable Campagnolo said a l.ttie girl while gathering either ferns or grasses, noticed a man lying n the £2s, face downwards, and. thinking he was sick, gave the alarm to some. people in the street, who telephoned he police. The constable proceeded to the "pot and found the man n the position described, with a razor alongside the body. . Decomposition had S in and Tne appearances indicated that death must have taken place wS subsequently identifiers that of George Peck of Palmerston North, and formeilj, of Waiono. The deceased was a single man - -
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2124, 16 May 1922, Page 5
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133A GRUESOME FIND. Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2124, 16 May 1922, Page 5
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