SUICIDE
OVER LACK OF WORK. (By Telegraph —Per press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, July 22. Ernest Marsh, married, aged 42 years, a painter and paperlianger, was found hanging from a rafter in a shod at the hack of his home at Addington this morning. Apparently he had' climbed a step ladder and then jumped from it.
Marsh had been depressed lately through lack of work. At the inquest to-day, the Coroner, Air E. D. Mosley, returned a verdict that Marsh committed suicide by- hanging, while in a state of deep mental depression.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1931, Page 6
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90SUICIDE Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1931, Page 6
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