FOUND DEAD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 32, 20 January 1912, Page 4

FOUND DEAD.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF MR H S. PRIESTLY.

Mr. Herbert S. Priestley, who has tor \ ery many years carried on business in Stratford as an undertauer and cabinetmaker, was found dead at his house this morning, and it is thought he had probably been lying there some days.

A “Stratford Evening Post” reports er saw Sergeant McNeely,and learnt Irom him that Constable Bieasel had oeen informed by Mr. John Haggie, a tailor of tuis town, .that lie had found > , Mr. Priestley lying dead in an overturned chair. Constable Bleasel had',, ’ gone, to, the house in It-egan, Streep 'i and finding the back door iinlopkecJ, Went inside, and found Mr. Priestley'si body, as Mr. Haggie had described-i, ’ ‘ Mr.. Haggie, wfipn seen, , said; that. deceased was a client of, his,and ,he-„!' had occasion to go f arid:* see him oa Thursday morning. Efe, coujd .fiad aio,.’ stgn ofiMr.fPriestlqy,, and .wept,to fhq’ shop in, the afternoon; qpd,againpoupd r , f no traces. On. Thursday, nigh} Jigsaw a light burning in the house, and' the ' light was still there on Friday night. He called twice on Friday, once in the morning and once in the afternoon, . but could see ho-sign of. Mr. Priestley. ‘‘ This'morning he called -with his son, Willie, who suggested that they should go round to the back of. the premises. .1 hey tried the hack door, qnd found. it opdn,, ,and, deceased ' lyfrijr pxi!’dhe- A?, fiber, partly, sitting in the overturned iV,’ chair; Mr!’‘Haggle added, 1 ‘that'de-1 a ceased lived quite by himself, ana was never away from-home--for any time.

Dr. Steven' held &xn animation at the hospital this morning, and Mr. John Leydon, J.P., vvill.,. hold an inquest this afternodn at 3*30 • o’clock.