SUPPOSED SUICIDE AT AUCKLAND.
—— — (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, This day. H. J. Smith, for many years commercial traveller for Arch. Clarke and Sons, warehousemen, poisoned himself at his residence at the North Shore yesterday. He had been at the Races ■with his wife, and seemed in good health. After his return he went into his own room, and his wife going in some time afterwards found him lying down with two empty bottles of chloral. The doctor was sent for, and applied the stomach-pump; but all was unavailing, the patient dying soon afterwards. It is not known whether it is a case'of suicide, or whether Smith had taken an overdose of the drug. No cause is known for the suicide.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 979, 3 January 1883, Page 3
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120SUPPOSED SUICIDE AT AUCKLAND. Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 979, 3 January 1883, Page 3
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