STARTLING DISCOVERY

Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1929, Page 11

STARTLING DISCOVERY

DEAD MAN IN A TENEMENT / - ■ • /■ •'■ ■ ■■.■■■ WOULD-BE TENANT SURPRISED,,}; ■ ■■ ;■ i ''-'A' l ? SCENE OF PREVIOUS TRAGEDY. 4 —SW 7 By Tclegra ph — Press Association.. r . ' Wellington, Laet Night’.' When a prospective lady tenant war»j® being shown over a vacant house: Alma Street at about 11 o’clock ..this > morning she happened to push open a door, revealing the body of a man. Tho£ji head rested in a gas oven, which was . ; turned full on, and apparently the body '■= had been lying there for two days. ■ ’ ; b:? The man was identified as a labourer named A. Stewart, who was a former tenant of the house. Death was due, to.L; asphyxiation and the taking of a of disinfectant. . , ' Three months ago a woman named.;--.; Brooker committed suicide in the eame ’ house by taking the same poison.;