HANGED IN BURNING HUT.
Dunedin, September 25,
if farm labourer named W. F. Johnstone, employed by Mr P. Sim, at Cookston, committed suicide by liauging himself with a piece of fencing wire in an unoccupied hut, which he set on lire before taking his life. When Mr Sim went to investigate the walls were falling in, and tne body was much burned. Apparently the deceased, who had been an the district only a low months, had previously been an inmate of a •mental hospital.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1615, 26 September 1916, Page 3
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84HANGED IN BURNING HUT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1615, 26 September 1916, Page 3
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