DEATH BY HANGING

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 109, 1 February 1919, Page 6

DEATH BY HANGING

. AGED WOMAN'COMMITS SUICIDE.- '• Yesterday afternoon the Coroner, Mr. 1 W. G. Riddell, S.M., conducted an in- . vestigation into the circumstances suri rounding the death of Mrs. Maria Johnston, who was found hanging by a r ;pe in a washhoiise at No. I I Msjoribahks , Street on Thursday afternoon. Dr. Thomson stated that lie . found rle- i ceased lying (lead in the washhouse. Ho , made an examination, and it was appar- ! ent that ■ the deceased had. died fiorn : strangulation. Robert William Jones, grocer, stated that the deceased, who was his mother--in-law. resided with liini 1 at No. 14 'Majoribanks Street. Deceased had"indifferent health and suffered from depression. Witness last saw his nio'lher-in- ■ jaw alive at about 2.30 p.m. on Thurs- 1 day, and soon aftfir that hour he dis-1 covered her hanging by the neek from a rafter in the shed. Witness sent fop Dr. Thomson, who pronounced life cxtirict., During the four months deceased re?ided with witness she had been kept under constant supervision. ■■■■ After Hearing the police evidence His "Worship .(returned a verdict- to the efteefc 'that the'deceased, who was G1 years of age. committed suicide on January .30, 1919, by hanging herself whilst suffe" from mental depression.