COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER’S SUICIDE.
OUTS THROAT WITH RAZOR
Blenheim, Last Night
A man named Alexander MacLean, aged 54, a commercial traveller representing Royd Bros, and Kirk, merchants, Christchurch, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor this morning in his bedroom at the Terminus Hotel, Picton.
He arrived in Picton from Blenheim on Saturday evening, and went with a fishing party to the Sounds on Sunday, returning in his usual normal spirits. During the night he complained of feeling unwell, and received some whisky from the licensee, which was not used. The chambermaid found his body this morning in a pool of blood, with a razor alongside. He wrote four letters on Sunday, addressed and stamped them. None gave any indication of the act. The coroner returned a verdict of suicide, there being no evidence to show the state of his mind when l lie act was committed.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3557, 2 November 1926, Page 2
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148COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER’S SUICIDE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3557, 2 November 1926, Page 2
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