A SUICIDE
UNUSUAL ATTITUDE. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, November 9. An eighty-years-old Company director who went to Brighton, and took veronai, taxied to Devil's Dyke and 'dropped over the c-liff, left a remarkable letter in a bank deposit safe. ‘(I protest against any suggestion of temporary insanity. For years 1 was convinced of a man s right to dispose of his life as his conscience approves. 1 am weary of this world and do not know any duty I have not performed. I want to avoid the , problems besetting my few remaining years and am only acting after a long careful consideration and weeks of preparation.” Another note beside the body said.— Do not .send me home. It would make a doleful house sorry;
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1931, Page 6
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126A SUICIDE Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1931, Page 6
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