PATHETIC SUICIDE
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Auckland Spinster Worried Over Her Cats • GIVEN NOTICE TO SHIFT
(By Telegrapb-
AUCKLAND, This Day. - iWorry over having to leave the old building which had loiig been hcr home and thus having to lose the conipanion*hip of a number of cats tsh.e had * gathered about he£ as jiets js consideved
by a social worker to be the reason why Agnes Inkster, spinster, aged 70, ftommitted suicide yesterday. Slio was tound dead in the ho-uso with a gas tube in her moutli. jfhe social worker said that carly in the month Miss Inkster roceived notice that the house was to be demolished. She had a large number of cats as pets They were hcr only companions, and she was greatly worried about wh.it would becomo of them. She was an oldage pensioner and a native of the Shetland Islands. She is not known to have had any rolativos in Now Zcaland. A ycrdict of suicide by gas-poisoniug was returned by Mr F. K.Huut at the ingvxe'st to-day, •"
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 187, 25 August 1937, Page 5
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170PATHETIC SUICIDE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 187, 25 August 1937, Page 5
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