ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
————i „. GUM-DIGGER FOUND DEAD.
Per Press Association. Daraaville, May 5. The body of an old-age pensioner named Charles Carlson, a gum digger, was found by a lad while .shooting on Sunday near Maitahi. The deceased, who had been on the gum fields for over twenty years, went away about Christmas time, but no notice was taken of his departure. as he often wont a way. The body was hi an auvnio'd stage of decomposition. There were no marks of violence, and the coroner brought in a verdict of found dead from exposure.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXII, Issue 58, 6 May 1924, Page 2
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