Suicide of a Merchant at Oamaru
. )>ER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] 1 OAKABV, Msj 2. 1 Mr De Lambert, a merchant, haa committed suicide by taking prusaic ' acid. He was .found by bis office boy this moniing quite dead on a sofa is the office. He leaves a wife, who ii I near her confinement, and eight child. ren. The supposed cause ft businesi trouble. His life was insured su ► months ago in the (government office, but as the rule of the office is that in ' case of suicide within- 13 -months the t policy is not paid, it k |eared. th« | family will get nothing. Aji inquesl f was held,- and a verdict, of temporarj k insanity was returned. ' t - ' ' - . .
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 127, 3 May 1887, Page 2
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