SUICIDE IN A CAR.
LONDON. Sept. 18. A novel form of suicide was revealed at an inquest at Ashburton, Devon, yesterday oil Charles Henry Harrington. aged -10, a commercial traveller, of Newton Abbot, who was found dead in a motor-car near A\ idecomb-in-the-Moor. Police Sergeant Hall said that on being told that a saloon car had been in the same position all day he examined it and found Harrington sitting on the hack scat of the car wrapped in a rug, with his head resting on a coat. The doors of the car were shut and the curtains drawn, and all the crevices had been stopped up. The floor bad been sawn through and rubber tubing connected with the exhaust pipe bad been taken into the car, just above the level of the back seat. The hole in the floor was plugged with a mat. He thought the engine had been left running until the petrol was exhausted. Dr Ellis said death was due to carbon-monoxide poisoning, the principal constituent of exhaust gases. Death had probably occurred 24 hours earlier. A verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1927, Page 2
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