A FATAL INFATUATION.
DISAPPOINTED SUITOR TAKES POISON. 'To Aroha, Last Night. Robert Logan, aged 23, a farm labourer, committed suicide by drinking poison at. the residence of Mr. J. Wicklitl'e at Gordon on Saturday evening. At the inquest to-day, evidence was given by Mrs. Wloklil'fe that Logan, who had been nursed by her after an accident in February last, laid become over-friendly and had urged her to leave her husband and go away with him. In anticipation of her consent, he had, without her knowledge, sent a suitcase containing her clothes to ihe railway station. Logan had been in To Aroha on Sat unlay, where lie purchased on the pretext of poisoning rabbits, a bottle of poison. In the evening, he visited the Wicklili’e home and after asking for a pad and writing a letter which he placed in his pocket, lie drank the poison. This letter, on the ground that it contained aspersions on someone’s character, the •Ctoroner refused to admit as evidence and the constable who discovered it was not permitted to read it. A verdict of death by poison, self-administered, was recorded.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4445, 29 April 1930, Page 3
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185A FATAL INFATUATION. Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4445, 29 April 1930, Page 3
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