MAN’S TERRIBLE DEATH
LAY FOR FOUR DAYS IN CEMETERY BARBED-WIRE AND POISON Reed. 9.50 a.m. SYDNEY, Today. With his wrists and throat gashed by barbed wire, Herbert Westerman, aged -8, lay for four days behind a headstone in the Rookwood cemea terrible lingering death. He died soon after his discovery yesterday afternoon. Westerman was found in a pool of Dlood, with bloodstained barbed wire alongside. He said he had gone there to end his life. He also swallowed poison to speed his death.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 672, 25 May 1929, Page 9
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83MAN’S TERRIBLE DEATH Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 672, 25 May 1929, Page 9
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