FOUND DEAD.
RETIRED SEA CAPTAIN.
SUPPOSED GAS POISONING,
When the wife of Captain F. J. Gill, of Tni Street, Devonport, went home last evening, after having been out all day, she found the place locked up. The police were called, and, forcing an entrance, the dead body of Captain Gill was found on the floor with the tube of a gas radiator in his mouth. He had apparently been dead several hours. Deceased, who was a retired mariner, leaves a widow and four children.
The coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., held an inquest at the residence of deceased at Devonport this afternoon. Evidence was given that when the police entered the roof at the request of Mrs. Gill they found the body lying under a cloak with the gas fire turned on. Death had probably taken place some hours earlier. In the room was a sharpened carving knife and also a glass into which sulphuric acid had been poured, but apparantly none of it had been taken by deceased. It was stated that Captain Gill had spent some time in the East before he retired from the sea. He was 47 years of age.
A verdict of suicide from gas poisoning was returned.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 229, 27 September 1929, Page 7
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204FOUND DEAD. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 229, 27 September 1929, Page 7
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