INQUESTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8009, 21 December 1905, Page 2

INQUESTS.

A DYING STATEMENT, PEIi JMiUSS ASSOCIATION. Gieuohne, December 20.' / A verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned in the caso of Bernard William Finch. 111 his dying statement he wrote:— " I have become an idiot through under-mining my health. I could always work hut acted mail. I came first of all from England from a good. Catholic family, but threw up my religion and thought I would ho a free thinker. The punishment is just. I was proud (a God and man. That is the punishment sent by God. I thought ! was as clever as any man. Don't pity, hut blame. It is all my own fault. Everybody I met 011 the road was ve,y kind. I went from England te India, and then outhorc.— Bcrnurd William Pinch,"

A VICTIM TO INTEMPEKAKCE. Plitt ritKSS ASSOCIATION. AVkllixgton, December 20. Ail inquest oil the body of Gooi'gc Wallace, who shot himself u\ the bar of the Oriental Hotel on Monday evening, was held t hiu afternoon. Evidence was given that i,eceased occasionally I (tank for a week 011 end, and used to get very, despondent. He had a bout of that kind about a fortnight ago, and was very melancholy at times. He' was addicted to sitting alone and brooding, aiu\ an opinion was expressed by one witness that he was insane. | Ofljer evidence was given showing tliut during the past fortnight deceased had been very depressed, tfhd when spoken to about the Christmas holidays had remarked; —"I'll be taking a pretty long holiday soon." The jury returned a verdict of suicide ■ duriag temporary inanity.