ASOLDIER'S SUICIDE
By Telegraph—Press Association. Palnicrston North, May 18. A returned soldier, Private Arthur Robert Gardner, committed suicide by hanging himself with a sheet from the fire escapo of the Occidental Hotel tonight. Deceased was seen" at G o'clock, and appeared lo lie in his usual stato of health. He went upstairs, and at S.M ]un. was found dead, lie had thrown himself over the side of tho hotel, and his neck was broken. Private Gardner was '20 years of axe, and returned on February 25, after a year's active service in the Auckland Infantry. A month later ho was discharged on account of wounds. His mother resides at Oluitu, Tnihnpe, and among the papers on the body was a letter from her imploring tindeceased to leave town and come lioiuc, as she did not want him to get: into bad company. Deceased complained lately of terrible pains in the head.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 199, 17 May 1919, Page 6
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151ASOLDIER'S SUICIDE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 199, 17 May 1919, Page 6
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