BUSINESS MAN’S SUICIDE
Dunedin, December 24. At the inquest, on Harold Napthali, the coroner (Mr Bundle, S.M.), said that he knew the deceased, who was a man of bright, cheery temperament. From inquiries ninde it seemed that the incident happened on the boat on_which deceased was returning to New Zealand after a trip to the Old Country, which unduly affected him. Deceased had persuaded a passenger to -(fear a fancy costume which unfortunately caught fire and the passenger died. Deceased had carried the man, and was with him when he died. This incident seemed to have preyed upon Napthali’s mind, and he was not good health when he came back. He became depressed and bis death was the result of that. He had no fiilaneial worries of any kind. The eoronorV finding was of suicide : while in a stale of extreme mental depression. Harold Xaplhali, a single man, 33 years of age, a partner in the firm of Donald Stuart and Co., was found hanging in a lift well of the . firm’s premises by a charwoman who went to clean the place.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2676, 27 December 1923, Page 3
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182BUSINESS MAN’S SUICIDE Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2676, 27 December 1923, Page 3
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