AN OPEN VERDICT
, Clsborne, February 22. At an early hour last Thursday morning- a middle-aged man named Thomas Wallace -was found, dead with his throat cut in-the house of Samuel English, a labourer, living in Delautour Road, Kaiti. At the inquest it was statea that deceased had been drinking, but after a long and exhaustive inquiry the coroner. 1 was unable to , find evidence to show how deceased came by the wound in his throat, ,'and returned an open verdict. ■ This was on Friday last: On Sunday morning, English, on visiting -the. scene of., the tragedy, found a calendar ■ for 1915 lying on th© grass outside- the back door. On the _ back of it was an unsigned message in pencil, supposed to' have been written, by deceased, and pointing to, it is thought, bis intentions of suicide. Counsel for_ English has now approached the Minister of Internal Affairs, requesting "permission to have this and otner evidence heard and the inquest reopened.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2392, 23 February 1915, Page 6
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161AN OPEN VERDICT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2392, 23 February 1915, Page 6
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