A CASE OF SUICIDE.
GRUESOME DETAILS OF THE ACT Per Press Association. Gisborne, February 19. At the inquest on Thomas Wallace, a labourer who committed suicide at Kaiti by cutting his. throat with a butcher’s knife, the evidence showed gruesome details, the man having slashed his throat first with a pocket knife and then wandered through the house, spurting blood everywhere. He left on* a bed occupied by two small children his money, watch, and vest. The parents of the children, hearing a gurgling noise and banging on the wall, had vacated the premises and gone for assistance to the neighbors. The inquest was adjourned.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 42, 20 February 1915, Page 7
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105A CASE OF SUICIDE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 42, 20 February 1915, Page 7
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