SUICIDE IN CELL
ARRESTED AT OWN INSTANCE [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, December 29. Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., held a coronial inquiry respecting the death of Thomas Pauling, a labourer, aged thirty-four, in a cell at the Mount Crawford Prison. The verdict was that the deceased committed suckle by hanging himself. The coroner said that no blame was attachable to any of the officers. Constable Lush said that the ' deceased came to him on Lambton quay on Christmas Eve, and said he . had been drinking heavily for the past fortnight, and if he was not locked up ho would commit suicide. Ho was taken to the Central Police Station and charged with helpless drunkenness, and on Wednesday he was remanded for medical observation. The superintendent of the Mount Crawford Prison said that no nii mictions had been received that tiro deceased had shown signs of suicidal tendencies, and ho gave no indication that he would take his life. He was treated as an ordinary “drunk and placed in one of the regulation (His. The deceased hung himself nam the bars by a piece of blanket.
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Evening Star, Issue 20062, 31 December 1928, Page 6
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186SUICIDE IN CELL Evening Star, Issue 20062, 31 December 1928, Page 6
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