A DETERMINED SUICIDE
By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Anril 21. Frank P. Bolton, who hanged himself at Hagley Park this morning, was 19 rears of age. His people reside in Wellington. Ho i.ad been an occasional ' caller at' Iho Salvation Army Home. ' where ho had stated that he last joined the steamer Palcfona at Auckland, being d : sch«rged in February Inst. The suicide was very determined. Bolton had obtained a very short pioco of li™ht ropo like a clothes-line. One end of tho rope ho tied in a running iioose, and tho other end ho made fast to a low branch of a tree. When he wa9 found his.feet wero well on the ground, and at first it was thought, that he -.vas alive, but the body was quito cold, and had been hanging evidently for several | hours.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 177, 22 April 1920, Page 5
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137A DETERMINED SUICIDE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 177, 22 April 1920, Page 5
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