CORONERS' INQUESTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 12 October 1907, Page 5

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

Ai Tikowngi yim. !,..._, Air iiickiiiau I l '. uiii>sc,l, conducted a curouci = unjuirj into i.iu eircuuisumes surrounding Uie deaiu-oi tho late George Wili'aiu Uuimiiigiiani, a Tikorongi fanner. Two witnesses were called—a neighboring farmer and one ol the sons of toe deceaseu.

Tom Arthur West, a neighbor of deceased, said he was called ou'Tnursday morning at live o'clock by Airs Ounningh mi, wife of George William Cunningham. She told him that her huauuid had been away all night, and she wanted him (witness) to come up and help her son to look for him. On the road from his farm they were met by young Cunningham, who saui tie had lonud his father (lead in an empty house adjoining the farm, having hanged himself. Witness went up and saw the body banging by the neck from a rafter by a piece of rope an I wire. He was quite dead, and his feet were well iff the ground. He had been dead soimtime. The body w.is quite cold. Witness went to Wnitaiu and informed Die police. He then relumed to (lie farm, and with the assistance of deceased's brother and Alfred Jupp cut the body down. He had known the deceased well. He had been in depressed spirits for a month or more. JI ( . hud suffered from ill-health, and wis recovering from an attack of influenza. On two or three occasions recently he had wandered away, not'returning till evening. The deceased had in his manner, but witness would never have suspected him of taking his life. Harry Glen Cunningham stated that the last time he saw his father aliv wns on Wednesday morning when Jie (witness) left for the factory. He detailed the finding of the body "His father had been in depressed' spirits consequent on an illness. He had not thought his father would commit suicide, but he had felt anxious during 1,j 3 absences from home.

The jury returned a verdict of suicide by hanging while temporarily insane.

\wv % » T\ y esterd 'y morning Mr H 1-. Russell, Acting-Coroner, conducted an inquest concerning the death o John Gould, who died LjonlyS The evidence of Mrs Fair was to +h„ effort that the man had be?n in W three W eek" T hac said he wag a widower with seven on arrival pronounced the n,a„ to neart failure. He would judge that debased about (10 years of Z Waiter Amhury, draper, said he know tte deceased, who had worked for a year ant, nine months. " The ]ury, without retiring, returned » ™*rt of aeath from natural cZTs

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