HANGING FROM A TREE.
RETURNED SOLDIER'S DEATH.
ONE' PENNY IN POCKET.
:.—own ' correspondent: CAMBRIDGE, Thursday.
While on a rorihd of the ground this morning the caretaker of the Cambridge Domain, Mr. W. Smithers, noticed the body of a man, with a sash-cord round the neck, hanging from a tree close to the domain boundary fence. Mr. Smithers immediately notified the police and went to the railway sheds for assistance. On arriving on the scene Mr. Edward Faulkner cut down the body, which was still warm and limp. The police afterwards arrived, together with Dr. Scott, who pronounced life extinct. An investigation of papers found on the body' showed that the deceased was Frederick Leonard Stokes, a discharged soldier. Deceased was a stranger to the district, nothing being known of him. One penny was the only money found in his pockets.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18664, 21 March 1924, Page 10
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