MAN TAKES POISON
(By Telegraph—Press Association)
TE AROHA, April 28,
Robert Logan, .aged 23, a farm labourer, committed suicide by drinking strychnine at the residence of Mr Wickljffe at Gordon on (Saturday evening.
.At the inquest to-day evidence was given by Mrs Wj^Mjt 6 that Logan who had been nursed,, by - :her after an accident jih February'last, had become over-tfriendly, and hudij iiirgqd her, to. jeayb lief husband. ai)d4go, away . with Jiirii. , /. In: anticipation of' lier cohsqnt lievliad sent;a kuitcafe,! cofitaining her,: .ctoihekp removed without her knowidegd,‘to the'railway station. Logan iiad be#'! in Te AroKiHon: satui*day Vliere *he purchased, of jjoisbning ‘babbits,' a bottle of strychjiiiie. In the evening he visited WickliftVs home, and after asking for a pad., and writing.,a:, letter, which he plficbd in his pocket, he drank the btrychnine. , This 'letter, J on the' ground that i'it qofftftinedj "LTspersions °n someone’s character,- thezCoronen-- refused to adniit .'. as '. |he '" Constable tVo discovered it vitas not permitted t‘o read it. A . verdict of poisoning self • administered was recorded. - ' J'*. ' hUA *
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1930, Page 3
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