DEATH OF A BOOKBINDER
SUICIDE WHILE MENTALLY DEPRESSED
Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., conducted an inquest yesterday afternoon, touching the death of Donald Lachlan M'Hutcheson. 61 years of age, a married man, employed as a bookbinder by the Treasury Department, who was found hanging in the workroom on Monday night. , , . , . Frank Herbert Morgan, brother-in-law of the deceased, said he had identified the body at the Morgue. Witness last saw M'Hutcheson alive on Sunday afternoon. He had no financial troubles as far as witness knew. When he left home on Monday morning he was particula-ly bright. Ho had been in fairly good health for the past twelve months, but nad a breakdown about eighteen months ago. Witness recognised the handwriting or M'Hutcheson in a- note which lie left behind. In this note be stated he was <-oing out of his mind. ” Colonel Esson, Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, said about 10 p.m. he received a telephone message asking if M'Hutcheson was in the buildings. Witness made a search, and found the bod> hanging in the bindery room. The Coroner found that deceased had hanged himself while in a state of temporary mental depression.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 128, 23 February 1921, Page 6
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192DEATH OF A BOOKBINDER Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 128, 23 February 1921, Page 6
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