CO-RESPONDENT SUICIDES.
RATHER THAN FACE COURT PROCEEDINGS.
Dunedin, Last Night
Albert James Coding, forty-three years of age, living with his Avife and four children, at Sfi Dnndns St., Avas found dead in the kitchen at his home at 6.30 this morning. Ellen Goding, wife of deceased, deposed that lie had been worrying about a divorce case in Avhich. be Avas corespondent, and bad made some remarks about doing aAvny with himself. Witness suav deceased for the last time about 7 o’clock yesterday, and going into the kitchen this morning she found him lying on the floor Avith the gas tube in his mouth and a coat oA’er his head. The gas Avas turned on and life Avas extinct. Witness was going to commence divorce proceedings against deceased after his own case Avas over.
Elizabeth Jane Stewart said she liad known deceased for the last six years and saw him at her home in Grange Street last night. He seemed worried over a divorce case which was pending. Her husband was taking proceedings, in which deceased was co-respondent. Deceased said he would see witness again. Witness was living apart from her husband, \ The Coroner returned a verdict of suicide by coal gas poisoning.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2578, 10 May 1923, Page 3
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202CO-RESPONDENT SUICIDES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2578, 10 May 1923, Page 3
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