MAN FOUND DEAD IN THE EPSOM RESERVE.
On Saturday morning, aboub ten o'clock, a boy named Charles James Hart found a man lying dead in the Epsom Reserve. Dr. Roberton, who was passing in his buggy, was informed of the affair, and he went and examined the man, and found life to be extinct. He informed Constable Mcliveney, who proqeoded to the spot. Deceased was lying on his side, without marks of violence, and it is thought probabie the man died of heart disease. The constable removed the body to the Auckland morgue. The body was subsequently identified as that of Arthur Swete, formerly an Auckland tradesman nf some means. Further enquiries being made, it was found that, ha had been slopping at tho boarding-house of Mr. John Driver, but left on the SSOIIi inst., stating that he was going to PUkekohe to look for work if he could not get it in town. He was In his Usual health, but somewhat despondent through being unemployed; and that was the last seen of him. Swete was formerly a member of tho Waitemata Lodge of Freemasons. An inquest will bo hold to-day at '2.30 o'clock, at Gleeson's Hotel.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10426, 26 April 1897, Page 5
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197MAN FOUND DEAD IN THE EPSOM RESERVE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10426, 26 April 1897, Page 5
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