FOUND DEAD IN CAR

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 30 November 1938, Page 2

FOUND DEAD IN CAR

RESIDENT OF WELLINGTON i INQUEST TO BE HELD i v tilled I‘RW Atmociat i<>fjl WELLINGTON, This Day. When Mr G. H. Bayllss, a quarryman, was proceeding along the waterfront drive west of Ohiro Bay at about 7 o’clock this morning, he noticed a car parked by the sideroad with what appeared to be the body of a man in it. He obtained the assistance of the police and the door was opened. In the seat next to the driver's seat was found the body of Walter Percival Carter, aged 56. who had been living at 65 Cambridge Terrace. He had apparently been dead for some hours. The car was parked close to the cliffs at a point 400 yards from the Happy Valley road junction and some distance from any house. It was a sedan with shut windows and locked j doors. A rubber tube had been conj nected to the exhaust pipe and led in through the rear window. The motor had been started and left to idle. When the body was found the motor had stopped, either through lack of petrol or through choking. The indications that the car was driven to the spot at a fairly late hour. An inquest will be held.