FOUND DEAD

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 394, 28 October 1933, Page 4

FOUND DEAD

Mr. Edgar Carryer SAD DEATH OF ESTEEMED CITIZEN ■ s The discovery at New Plymouth late yesterday afternoon of the body of Mr. Edgar Carryer established the fact of his death after he had been missing for the past sixteen days. The discovery was made in some lupins' between Kawaroa Park and the Belt Road railway crossing, about one hundred yards past the engine shedsThere was a gun alongside the body' and a gunshot wound in the head. The discovery was made by Mr Albert. Betts, Cameron Street. The body Was identified last evening at the New Plymouth hospital mortuary, where the district coroner, Mr, W. H. Woodward, attended. An Jnqueat will be held. Mr Carryer, who was 57 years of age, left his home, Birdwood Avenue, Fitzroy, at 10 a.m. on October 11. He went to-town and did some business as intended. He was expected! to return for lunch. From i p.m. that day until the finding of his body yesterday Mr Carryer had been neither semi nor heard of.

Mr Carryer had lived in partial retirernefit at New Plymouth for five months. He had been in business at Stratford for many years in Carryers Ltd., Broadway, of which he was managing director. He was a justice of the peace, a former councillor of the borough of Stratford and had also held other prominent public positions. For some time prior to his disappearance Mr Carryer had been in ill-health, not sleeping well and suffering from loss of memory. Popular and esteemed, the late Mr Carryer was respected by every section of Stratford’s community, and his sad death is widely mourned.