RELIEF WORKER’S DEATH

Patea Mail, 27 March 1936, Page 1

RELIEF WORKER’S DEATH

GASH ACROSS THROAT. After agreeing to 'accompany two police officers to tlio Hnwera police station on Tuesday afternoon Benjamin) Speight, a relief worker aged 63, residing on South Road, Hnwera, entered an outhouse, .where half a minWtc> later he was found with a gash across his throat and a razor at Ms feet. Hr, W. M. Thomson was summoned and on arrival pronounced life extinct. Speight was not in custody on any charge, said Detective Kearney. Th# police had called to interview him and had ne authority to search him. Ho was not aware that Speight had in liia possession a razor. > It was not until afterwards that the police learned that Speight had previously threatened to take his life.