FOUND DEAD IN STREET

Taranaki Daily News, 19 June 1928, Page 9

FOUND DEAD IN STREET

WELL-KNOWN WELLINGTON MAN.

Whilst pro., .-mg to his home in Bidwill Street at a little after noon on Tuesday, Mr. J. -F. Perry, librarian of the Newtown Public Library, left a Brooklyn tramcar near the Bell Road reservoir, and was crossing Central Park by a well-known track when he caught sight of a man lying under a tree. As it was a wet, cold day ho thought tlie attitude of the man was strange, and on investigating found the man to be dead. The cause of the man’s death was only too apparent. There was the blade of a pair of scissors in his heart, the breast having been bared to receive the apparently self inflicted stab. The body was recognised as that of Mr. Richard M. Brewer, a man well known in local commercial circles, a member of the Wellingtan Commercial Travellers’ Club. ar<i an aetne worker for years for those charitable objects that are eo generously fathered by the club. Mr. Brewer, who was married, had not been in the best of health lately, and it is stated that business matters bad occasioned him concern, lie was an old resident of Wellington, ami lo* untimely end is genuinely regretted by a large circle of friends.

The above is the third occasion on wlijt’h Mr. Perry has discovered a dead person in the same vicinity. In one case he found the body of a man hanging to a tree; in another case a mail > ad shot, himself.