CASE OF SUICIDE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 128, 16 June 1937, Page 14

CASE OF SUICIDE

Man Found at Breakwater • ' Deceased was a man of quiet disposition, and it appears a clear case of suieide; he said in a note for the police, asking that for the sake of his relatives in Norway as little fass as possible be made, that it was a case of suieide," commented the coroner, Mr. J. Miller, S.M., in returning a verdict that Johan Petersen, of Oslo, Norway, had committed suieide by severing the-main artery dn his left wrist and bieeding to death. The body of deceased was discovered on the beach licar Ihe Napier Breakwater on May 26, the wrist gashed by a knife. That deceased appeared to be in good health when last she saw him was the evidence given by Alma Larsen, of Napier, domestie. Sho then saw him in Caroline street, and was told tliat he was going lo chango a book at the i library. He appeared to be in good health. Ohristian All'red Larsen said that he had found a note in deceased 's writing in some of his clotliing. Constable D. Beck said that he found the body, fully-clothed, in a sitting position on the beach. The licad was lcaning forwaril on a boulder. The main artery in the left wrist appeared to have been seveted, and a bloodstained pocket knife was beaideMthe