DEAD ON ROADSIDE
EVIDENCE. AT ' INQUEST [Br TELEGBAPH-—OWX; COBRESPONPEXT] TE'AWAMUTU, Tuesday , ' A single man, 31 v. John Newman Fraser, aged 36, a labourer employed ou-.the land-development scheme at Puketotara, 14 mi lea from Te Awamutu, was found "dead in a ;clump of blackberry tin the roadside yesterday- ' An inquest was held last night before the district coroner, Mr. Jeffrey. Ivvidr ence was given that deceased camped,-; one and" a-half miles away from the place whero he Avas found and 1 -that n0 Ap went , down .to. -.the-letter box _on tho roadside for the 'mail. . A neighbour found his body soon afterward. Medical.., cvideuce was : given that,'-.there .were - signs of violence on tho body and that deceased was subject to;epileptic fits- ; A verdict, of asphyxia caused by an epileptic "fit was,returned; . _
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23160, 5 October 1938, Page 11
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