SUICIDE AT PAEROA.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5049, 8 November 1926, Page 2

SUICIDE AT PAEROA.

BUTCHER FOUND HANGED.

YESTERDAY’S TRAGIC DISCOVERY

Quite a shock was received by the residents of Paeroa shortly after 3 o’clock yesterday* afternoon when it bfcame known that Mr Albeit Edward Say, a well-known Paeroa business man, had committed suicide by hanging.

Deceased, who 'for soma years had been in business as a ; bu tenor, sold out about a year ago, and had just repurchased his old business and entered into possession.

Mr Say appeared to be in his usual state of health yesterday morning, and after breakfast he left the residence of Mr E. J. Mettam, Prospect Terrace, where he; had been staying. saying that he was going down to his shop for an hour.

The morning wore on: and early afternoon approached, hut Mr Say did not return for dinner. Later in the afternobn Mr Mettam wejtit down town in the hope of finding Mr Say en rXite. Seeing no sign of him, Mr Mettam visited the shop, in Belmont Road, and, finding the back door open, walked in. Passing through the hide room he made the dfieadful discovery that deceased had hangqd himself ’from a rafter in the shed.

Mr Mettam immediately obtained help and the body was cut down, only to find that life was extinct.

It would appear that (he deceased had thrown .a light cord over the rafter while standing on a box, which he had kicked from under him after passing a loop ove.r his head.