DEATHS IN CITY
j GIRL DROWNED IN BATH TWO MEN FOUND DEAD (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Monday Grace Rosalie Burch, aged 13, was found dead in a bath at her home, ! 40 Happy Valley Road, on Saturday I evening. She attended a Salvation Army picnic during the day. When l’ouncl by her father, who had to break open the bathroom door, she was on her knees with her face under water. The girl is understood to have enjoyed perfect health. Mr Robert Paul, an accountant, aged 24, was found in a house in Miromiro Road, Normandale, today, | with head injuries through a shoti gun discharge in the mouth. The gun was beside him. He died on the way to hospital. The body of Mr Elwyn John Adams, married, aged 31, was found today at 17 Esplanade, Petone, with the head in a gas oven.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21037, 13 February 1940, Page 3
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