Wife Finds Husband Dead When She Returns From Holiday
When she returned from a week's I hoi d..y in Pukokura Day. Wellington,) to her Wanganui home at 3.45 o'clock j yesterday afternoon a woman found her hu band sitting in an armcha r, dead. The dead man was: Mr. John Joseph Melton, aged 71. a carpenter, oi , No. 1 Cavcll Pla o, Gonville. Death is thou Jit ta have occurred) someiimc an August 23. Mr. Melton had a family of four adult daughters. An inquest for identification purposes will be open this mern ng and adjourned. It. is thought that deceased died from a heart attack. >
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Wanganui Chronicle, 1 September 1950, Page 4
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