TRADESMAN DROWNED.
PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES.
SERIOUS FINANCIAL TROUBLES.
[pr'TKLECE-VPn.— ASSOCIATION.) »,#•Ciikistcitchcu, Wednesday. Tins naming the body of Albert Edwin Brighton, of Christchurch, a fruiterer, ' viS found floating faco downwards in the Am, below Dallington Bridge. 4At the inquest Thomas J amor Brown, assistant bailiff of the Magistrate's Court) ■ stated that he had been in possession of <lacea«ed'» house since Monday, in respect of a distress warrant for £<120 10s. Deowed had been worried a good deal about lh« matter. • He tried to borrow .money to fay off the claim, but had failed. Witpew last saw the deceased at about six o'clock in the morning, when he went out. A verdict was returned that deceased jrai found drowned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15519, 29 January 1914, Page 7
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