DEATH FROM STARVATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17380, 31 January 1920, Page 2 (Supplement)

DEATH FROM STARVATION.

EX-SOLDIER'S PITIABLE END. After lingering for over a fortnight, William Parry, 44, an ex-soldier, died in Both Hospital from starvation. He was found in a very emaciated condition by ( a roadman under one of the arches of the bridge over the Biver Avon at Newton, Bath, and declared ho had had no food for 17 cays. When walking from Bristol he felt ill, and went to rest under' the arch. . He took his boots off, and could not put them on again, 'because of bis swollen feet. His head was bad, then trench feet, from which he suffered in Fiance, attacked him, and' be could not go on. He remained - under the arch until found. At the hospital ,he added he had not a relation'or frientt in the world. .

girl again . endeavoured to make peace, and Miller, who had also joined the party, said, "Come on, boy, don't make any more fight." - Foster then pushed him in t the face wiui his left hand and immediately afterwards rushed Jit him and stabbed him'below the left breast. Miller staggered back, crying, "Oh, he has stabbed Inc •" r '' Emm* Miller, a white girl stated that she c V?s married to Harold Miller on the day he received the fatal Injuries.- She raw him in the street several times durins; the evening. She left him at a late hour, but returned five minutes later and found he had been stabbed.