CAR CAPSIZES IN LAGOON
YOUNG MAX’S BODY DISCOVERED
MYSTERY TO BE INVESTIGATED
It was reported to the Dunedin police on Sunday morning that a car upside down was lying in a lagoon about a mile on the Port Chalmers side of St. Leonards. On the arrival of the police at the spot the car was righted, and it was found that the body of a man, since idontitied ns that of J. C. Stycho, was inside. Rigor mortis had set in and the man had evidently been dead for a number of hours.
Stycho was a single man, aged 22, and boarded in South Dunedin. His parents reside at Port Chalmers. An inquest will be held.
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Patea Mail, Volume LII, 7 January 1931, Page 2
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116CAR CAPSIZES IN LAGOON Patea Mail, Volume LII, 7 January 1931, Page 2
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