SUICIDE OF NOVELIST
EVIDENCE OF ILL HEALTH MR. \Y. ~T .JORDAN’S HELP (Reed. Aug. 26, 11 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 25. Giving evidence at the inquest into the death of the New Zealand novelist. Miss Iris Wilkinson (“Robin Hyde”), who was found by a friend suffering from gas poisoning in her London home, the New Zealand High Commissioner, Mr. W. ,1. Jordan, said that in response to a telephone call he visited the flat on Monday. Miss Wilkinson was in bed crying. She was a cripple and her health had been bad for a considerable time. He endeavoured to persuade her to return to New Zealnd, but she ceemej concerned over the financial arrangements of a new play. He loaned her money, and his daughter bought provisions.
Mr. Jordan said that he learned after Miss Wilkinson’s death that she had £23 credit at the . bank. The Coroner: Then her poverty seemed a delusion.
Mr. Jordan: She did not tell me she was in need, but she seemed so poor that I did not like to question her.
The coroner returned a verdict of suicide.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20027, 28 August 1939, Page 7
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183SUICIDE OF NOVELIST Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20027, 28 August 1939, Page 7
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