ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
DETERMINED SUICIDE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Ashburton, January 3. An elderly man named James Hawkins committed suicide last evening by strangling himself with bindor twine. He placed a noose round his neck, tied the other end to a door handle, and pulled back until ho was suffocated. Ho left a lettor for tho Public Trustee as to how to dispose of his property, and three other letters to friends. He is supposed to have been drinking heavily during tho holidays.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 86, 4 January 1918, Page 7
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82ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 86, 4 January 1918, Page 7
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