"TIRED OF LIFE”
SUICIDE WHILE DEPRESSED. While in it depressed state of mind, Martin Wood Milne, aged 45, of Maraina Crescent, committed suicide in an office in the city on Friday morning. At an inquest held by Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M. (Coroner), "on Saturday, evidence was given to the effect that deceased hud stated several times after he had been suffering from a nervous breakdown that he was tired of life. When a constable who was summoned because of a smell of gas issuing from the ' office broke open the door Milne was found dead with a gas tube close to his head. The gas was turned full on. “Deceased seems to have bad a Jot of worries.” said the Coroner in returning a verdict of suicide from gas poisoning while depressed. “His ill-health combining with anxiety over the illness of his wife, who is at present in hospital. and tho recent loss of a sister appear to have affected his mental condition, with the result that ho took his own life.”
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 115, 13 February 1928, Page 11
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173"TIRED OF LIFE” Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 115, 13 February 1928, Page 11
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