WANGANUI TRAGEDY.
MAN COMMITS SUICIDE. .1. EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES. Wanganui, July 20. Henry Thomas McEwen, labourer. aged 45 years, married, committed suicide this morning. Extraordinary and sordid circumstances surround the case. Besides deceased and his wife, there was another woman occupant of the house, and all the parties had been indulging in a drinking bout. McEwen Appears to have attempted suicide on Tuesday by cutting his throat with a razor. He bled profusely, his clothes being covered with blood, and in this condition he went out yesterday and purchased a bottle of whiskey and a bottle of disinfectant. On his returning home, more drinking followed. His wife said that in the night deceased said he had been drinking whisky, blit evidently he had taken the disinfectant and this morning she found him dead. A razor was found in a room clotred with blood and there was a mass of congealed blood in a wound in the neck.
Deceased had attempted to take his life some time ago, and was an inmate of the hospital for some time.
The other occupants of the house are unable to give a coherent account of the tragedy to the police.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2457, 22 July 1922, Page 2
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195WANGANUI TRAGEDY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2457, 22 July 1922, Page 2
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