MAN FOUND STRANGLED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17295, 20 October 1919, Page 6

MAN FOUND STRANGLED.

DEATH AT SAILORS'

HOME.

STRANGER TO THE CITY.

The body of a man was discovered in a lavatory at the Sailors' Home about 8 a.m. on Saturday, the neck being encircled by a handkerchief, the ends of which were grasped by the deceased's hands. Death had apparently resulted from strangulation. The man was a stranger at the Sailors' Home, and had been seen there for the first time on Friday afternoon. It is surmised that death occurred on Friday evening, as an inmate of the home, on going to the lavatory that night, found that something prevented the door fr >m opening, but he did not suspect that anything was wrong, and made no investigation.

Inquiries by Constable Martin, of the water police, indicate that the deceased was a fireman from Liverpool named Thomas Hardiman, aged 31, who had signed off the steamship Durham at Wellington on September 19. Apparently he had come to Auckland on Fridav by train, as a luggage ticket found in his pocket indicated that he had stored some luggage at the railway station on Friday. An inquest was opened before Mr. J. E Wilson, S.M., on Saturday, and was ad journed to enable a post-mortem examina t;on of the body to be made, and further investigations to be carried out by the police.