SUICIDE AT NGATEA.
MAN CUTS HIS THROAT. A single man named William Duncan Guy, aged 4(7, who has been employed by the Lands Department at various places on the Plains during the past 3% years, committed suicide on Friday afternoon by cutting his throat with a razor. An inquest was held on Saturday before Mr W, H. Lucas, coroner, of Thames. The evidence given showed that Guy had given notice the previous day. He had paid his store account up .to date. Several witnesses testified that deceased had appeared depressed since his brother’s death a week previously, and that on Friday morning he appeared unusually excited. The verdict given. was suicide while in a depressed state of-mind. A brother of deceased’s resides in Auckland and a half-sister in Thames.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4614, 15 October 1923, Page 2
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129SUICIDE AT NGATEA. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4614, 15 October 1923, Page 2
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