A BOY'S SUICIDE.
DELIBERATELY HANGS HIMSELF FROM A TREE. By Telerraph—Press Association—Onpyrisht Melbourne, October 7. Eric Norman Edwards, tho twelveyear- old son of a Warrnambool business man, committed suicide by hanging himself on a tree in Albert Park, Warrnambool. "Edwards and another boy wero going to school, when the other noticed a clothes line under the coat of Edwards, who explained that ho had found it. Shortly afterwards bo left his companions, saying that lie had forgotten to call at tho butcher's shop. Ho then went to tho park.' It is stated that Edwards's father had spoken to him the samo morning about truancy. The boy had declared that he had been flogged daily, but tho school authorities' evidence showed that ho had not been punished during tho past three months. Prior to the middle of September he had been bright and well behaved.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1875, 8 October 1913, Page 7
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144A BOY'S SUICIDE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1875, 8 October 1913, Page 7
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