CAR FOUND UPSIDE DOWN IN A LAGOON.
Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, January 4. It was reported to the police this morning that a car upside down was lying in a lagoon about a mile on the Port Chalmers side of St Leonards. On the arrival of the police at the spot the car was righted, and it was found that the body of a man. since identified as that of John Charles Styche, was inside. Rigor mortis had set in and the man evidently had been dead for a number of hours. Styche, a single man, aged twentytwo, boarded in South Dunedin. Ilis parents resided at Port Chalmers. An inquest will be opened to morrow morning.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19269, 5 January 1931, Page 4
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