HERMIT’S STRANGE DEATH
After living alone for 30 years, Joseph Woodwards, aged 71, of Hawkwell, near Southend, England, was lately found dead kneeling by the side of the hut he occupied. He had been dead in that position for three days. Several people had passed the hut, buj; no one had taken any notice of the kneeling man until a neighbour thought it strange that he should remain so long in the same position. Woodwards, who was practically a hermit, had permission from the landowner to remain in the hut for the rest of his days.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21300, 2 April 1931, Page 12
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96HERMIT’S STRANGE DEATH Otago Daily Times, Issue 21300, 2 April 1931, Page 12
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