A NELSON SENSATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13812, 28 January 1907, Page 4 (Supplement)

A NELSON SENSATION.

NELSON, January 7. Jfr-'W. A. Shein, district engineer, was ■found lying dead in his office late this afternoon. Recently tho business of his hae been conducted at Tadmor, where he has been residing, but he was in town on New Year's Ere, and as his family aro residing in a 6iiburb he evidently went to his office last Monday night ami slept there, intending to catch an early train on Now Year's morning. During tho night Jib must have had a fit—he was subject to fit*—and died there. There was much iblood bee'ide the body, whioh was scarcely recognisable, having-been in a hot, close room for a week. Mr Shain had not been mi&sed, as his family and friends beliovcd he was at work in the Upper Tadmor, and the pooplo there thought he was detained Sn town. Tho Publio Works town office is in tho old post ©ffico building, and an officer of Iho Telegraph Department, having occasion to eirtcr an adjoining room this morning, notiood a dreadful smell, but fouud no cause. Late this afternoon ho again went io an adjoining office, and concluded that the cause was in the, locked Publio Works office, and Ik> called tho police, .who broke ojfen the door and made tJx> discovery. The doctor called in stales that death resulted from a fit. The shocking event has created a deep impression, anil there is widespread sympathy with the wife and children. At tho inquest the medical evidence 6howed that deceased mwt havo died a week ago froni asphyxia, tho result of burying his /ace i» ins waistcoat during an epileptic, fit. A ■yeidiet; ■*?§,• teamed, iwordjnflfc