RAILWAY ENGINEER'S DEATH.
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' CHRISTCHURCH, 21st January. At an inquest into the death of William S. Gillies, the evidence £%owed that deceased had been worried over the purchase of a property, although he, was not in financial difficulties. He also had been worrying about his work. The Coroner said that Gillies was evidently a valued servant of the Railway Department. There was a- statement by one witness that he bad been overworked. It was not in doubt that he had deliberately taken his life, and it seemed that the, aggregate of circumstances had caused him to/do what he had done. A verdict was returned of_ suicide while in a depressed state of mind through worry.
DUNEDIN, 21st January. William Strother Gillies, the railway signal inspector, who committed suicide at Christchurch; leavis 'a wife and six young children in ' Dunedin. His age was 41.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 20, 24 January 1924, Page 13
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