PENSIONER’S SUICIDE
POISONED BY GAS FUMES HAD FAMILY WORRIES Left digging in the garden yesterday, and apparently in good spirits, Mr. John Shirtchffe was found dead in a gas-filled room four hours later. An inquest was held before Mr. F. K. Hunt, this morning, when Elizabeth Shirtcliffe said that her husband who Jived With her at IS Ulliagtan -h-oad, was Jin old age pensioner, his age being 71. He was a gardener by occupation. Her husband was digging in the. garden when she aud he.<daughter left the house about 12.30 yesterday afternoon. Mr. Shirtcliffe was discovered at 4.30 in the kitchen. The room was full of gus, and a tube f 1 otn the gasring was near his mouth Dr. Pezaro was called immediately, and pronounced life to be extinct. In witness’s opinion, her husband was depressed over a death in the family.
A verdict of suicide by gas poisoning was returned.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 560, 12 January 1929, Page 11
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