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PRISONER'S SUICIDE.
JUMPS INTO QUARRY.
"GOOD-BYE, FRIEND." NEW PLYMOUTH, July 1»A prisoner in New Plymouth gaol named Alan Talbert, aged 65, serving a sentence of reformative detention on a second conviction for indecent assault, committed suicide when returning from work. He suddenly saifl "Good-bye friend," to a warder, and! leaped over a bank 50 feet into a quarry, falling on rails used for trucks and expiring an hour later. At an inquest to-day a. verdict of "suicide, no neglect by officials," was returned.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3531, 20 July 1920, Page 4
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83PRISONER'S SUICIDE. Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3531, 20 July 1920, Page 4
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