Man Dead in Motor Car.
EXTRAORDINARY TRAGEDY. POISONOUS FUMES FROM EXHAUST. RENDERED UNCONSCIOUS FIRST. (Received 9.45 a.m.) | BRISBANE, This Day. An extraordinary tragedy was disclosed near here when Roland Mackay, aged thirty, was found at t[he -wheel of n closed car, which had been filled with poisonous fumes. The lifeless body was in a sitting position ; but a .local resident remembered having seen the machine on the same spot with tflie position of the body unchanged twclvo hours previously. The police examination revealed that the fumes issued from a, piece of piping which was jamined through , a hole in the floor the back seat. This piping was joined to a rubber hose, the end of %vhich was attached to the exhaust pipe. It is believed mackay was rendered unconscious by a sleeping draught or drug and met Ibis death while in that state.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 29, 1 September 1930, Page 5
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