THREATENED SUICIDE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 777, 25 September 1929, Page 11

THREATENED SUICIDE

GIRL FOUND DEAD AT POINT CHEVALIER GAS TURNED ON * Sooner than go to the madhouse I will do away with myself,” was the j threat made by Flora Hewitt, accord- ; ing to her fiance, Victor Eugene Le Prou. who gave evidence at an inquest I held before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.. coroner, this afternoon. Miss Hewitt was found dead yester-t day in the bath at a house at Point ' Chevalier. The gas at the califont had j been turned on. Mr. Lc Prou gave Miss Hewitt's age' as 2S. She lived at Kakahi, near j Tanmarunui. anti was on a visit to friends in Auekland. Witness, who ! was an enginedriver. also living Ka- i kahi. was to have married nor at j Christmas. The young woman had complained of 1 nervous pains in her head, but a letter j witness had received from her last j Thursday was quite bright and she had said that she expected to be home j Mr. and Mrs. L. D. N. Blackford of 203. Point Chevalier Road gave evi- | donee as to the finding of the body at 6.30 o’clock yesterday morning. Miss Hewitt was lying dead in the bath and the room was filled with gas from the califont. Constable Spellman assured the : coroner that he had tried artificial : respiration with no result. There was no doubt that death was j due to gas poisoning, according to Dr. j Gilmore, and a verdict of suicide was | returned accordingly.