ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
i'er jfress Association. Hokiuka, Night. John Scopinich, a well-known miner, a native ux Austria, was found uead CU.S morning with ius head in a '""-in ox water ou tlie iloor and a heavy iron uuuj; on tne back of 1113 head, it was v evidently a case of determined suicide* JJeceuseu was getting gradually blind, aiid was to be auniitted during tbe atternoon 10 tiie Old Men's Home.
Auckland, Wednesday. An elderly woman named I'runda ' Richard, who resided with her husband in Brown street, Ponsonby, committed suicide by hanging herself shortly after five last evening. She had been ill Her husband went out to get her medicine, and on returning to the house found her body suspended from the corner of the back door by a stran drawn tightly about the neck. A doctor was summoned, but his efforts to induce respiration were unsuccessful. At the inquest the husband stated that she feared the loss of her eyesight. A specialist had said that she Buffered from a peculiar affliction the effect of which was that she feared light. The verdict was that she committed suicide while of unsound mind, ■ -
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 19 December 1907, Page 2
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192ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 19 December 1907, Page 2
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