STRANGE FATALITY.
f: SUDDEN LOSS OF MEMORY, *■ -. ■:' '■ DEATH IN BUgH RESERVE. [BY -press-/ssocixtion.] <> j . . DraEDiN, Tuesday. An, inquest was , held .. this morning in connection with the death of. Robert Martin Crosby,.whose body was found in the bush off ; Dundas Street on Sunday after-' noon. On the evening of May 20," Crosby, who was manager of Messrs. Burt's factory, left Port Chalmers by the train for his homo in Cumberland Street but was not heard of again until the body was discovered. . The evidence showed that the deceased 'apparently got off the train at Pelicheb Bay.' v .There was no sign of a struggle where, the body was found. A number of matches, -some, used and some cot, which were found hear the body seemed to indicate that the deceased had been trying'to find his way out of the bush. A verdict was returned that death was caused by exposure, the. deceased having temporarily lost his memory. ' v
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15625, 3 June 1914, Page 8
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