DOCTOR FOUND MAN DEAD ON ROADSIDE.
Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, October 10. 'While driving along Murdoch Road, Mount Albert, at five o’clock last evening, Dr T. IT. Pettit noticed a man in some long grass in a peculiar attitude. On investigating he found that the man had been dead several hours with a wound in the throat, and a razor nearby. The body was that of Edmund Joseph Riesterer, of Avondale, aged fifty-six years. Fie was a married man with a grown-up family of six. He held a river master’s certificate, but until recently was employed by the Harbour Board. lie had been out of work a fortnight. At the inquest a verdict of suicide was returned.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19197, 10 October 1930, Page 8
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