ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
SUICIDE OF RETURNED SOLDIER AT TRENTHAM HOSPITAL.
A returned soldier named Josiah David Evans, an inmate oi the Trentham Military Hospital, committed suicide at the institution on Saturday last, and on Monday Air. P. Robertson, J.P., held an inouest at the camp. Constable Cummings. of Upper Hutt, represented tho police. The evidence went ,to show that Evans returned from tho front in 1917, and was admitted to the Victoria Military Hospital suffering from debility, and on July 17 last was transferred to Trentham for further treatment. Ho had been in bed for some days, and on tho advice of the doctor got ii]) on Saturday and sat in the sun on the verandah at 3.30 p.m., when he was last 'seen in an apparently normal condition. At 5 p.m. he was reported missing, and it was not till Sunday morning that ho was found hanging in tho gymnasium. The doctor was summoned, but could only pronounce life extinct. No letters as lo any intention to commit suicide were found on tho deceased. He had no relatives in New Zealand, and it js understood that his next-of-kin reside in .Bristol, England. A verdict was returned to tho effect thai: deceased died from strangulation caused by hanging limself.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 260, 30 July 1919, Page 7
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209ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 260, 30 July 1919, Page 7
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