SUICIDE.
John t'urrio, 74 years of ago. a ro--idt-nl of lleeve Street, ooiniaittoil -uii iiie on Suiulay aftornoon l»y Imaging himself in an outhouse af iho roar of his promises. The art. was committed during the tcmpov;>rv :ilisoiioo of his wife and sons.
The bodv was discovered shortly after the act had been committed, hv a visitor, who immediately comfnunicated the fact to the police, for some time past the deceased has been in indifferent health and despondent. An inquest was held in the Court House yesterday morning before Air AIL Eraser, coroner, when the following evidence was :a ken :
Eliza -lane Currie, wife of deceased, deposed that she last saw hei husband alive on Sunday, 22nd October, :d 4 p.m. .Deceased seemed then to be very quiet. 1 was then going to get the doctor to see him, and deceased was quite agreeable to tnv going, fur .some three weeks 1 have had to watch him constantly, lie told me a week ago that lie was mentally unbalanced, and asked to be -'em away. He had been under medieal care tor about a mouth. When 1 returned front tile doctors on Suiulay afternoon, a friend informed me that my husband hud ■ Hanged himself. Eliza belli de Bidder, said she called mi Airs Currie on Sunday afternoon. She could not make anyone hear at the front of the house, and walked round to the buck, when she saw, through tho half-open dour, deceased hanging in the shed. She -eat a message to the police. Constable Hanlon, in evidence, said in response to a message he proceeded to deceased's residence in lieeve Street. Deceased was hanging from a rafter in the wood shed. He cut the body down and sent for a doctor. The body was quite warm and witness tried artificial respiration until the doctor arrived and life was pronounced ixtmet.
Tim Coroner returned the following verdict; —"That deceased came to ids death by hanging, by ins own act, wiiiist in an unsound state of mind, on Sunday, October 22nd, lUlti, at Eoxton."
“Labour Day’’ was celehrated in a, fitting manner at All Saints’ Church yesterday forenoon by several members of the congregation, who, armed with spades and other implements, cleared np the grounds.
In some farm districts, says the. Farmers’ Union Advocate, the shortage of skilled farm lit hour is being keenly felt, although there is a fairly good supply of unskilled labour of sorts. Of course it is obvious that the country could not he depleted, as it has been by the war, of thousands of its best agricultural workers without greatly lessening the efficiency of work and restricting the undertaking of improvements, with the manifest result of reduced production during the present season.
It is slated by an exchange that some days ago a returned soldier telegraphed to the Defence Department, asking that His August pay should be handed over, making the telegram a “collect.” In reply, he was informed that the matter was not a sufficiently urgent one to necessitate a telegram, since a letter would have been equally effective, and stating that the sender owed the department Is 3Jd for the telegram. The money for which application was made was live weeks overdue.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1628, 24 October 1916, Page 2
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538SUICIDE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1628, 24 October 1916, Page 2
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