MAN COMMITS SUICIDE
HEAD IN GAS OVEN MENTALLY DEPRESSED A verdict that deceased had committed suicide by inhaling gas while in a state of mental depression following ill-health, was returned by the coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., at the inquest today on Leslie Garland Pike, who was found dead yesterday afternoon at 9 Symonds Street. The widow of deceased said he was an insurance agent, and had been in ill-health for some time and had often expressed a wish to die. He had come out of the Rotorua Sanatorium last week. She left him about .1 p.m. yesterday to go to town, and on her return abeut 4 p.m. she found the door of the flat locked. John O. E. Jackson said he was called by Mrs. f*ike and on breaking in the door found deceased lying on the kitchen floor with his head in the oven. The gas was turned full on. Dr. S. Zobel said he tried artificial respiration but without avail.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 263, 27 January 1928, Page 1
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