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FATAL HANGING EXPERIMENT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Ronald Black, aged 17, a son of Jas. Wm. Black, private secretary to the Hon. D. Buddo, hanged himself with a strap in the bathroom at his parents' residence at Kelburne shortly after lunch today. He had been to his studies in the morning as usual and at lunch time seemed in normal health and spirits. His mother missed him, but thought he had returned to school. Later, when she went to the bathroom, she found it locked, and investigation showed the boy was hanging by a strap. The dead boy's relatives state that a week or two ago he witnessed a moving picture representation of a man hanging himself, or pretending to do so. Young Black had a passion for experiment, and it is thought he was attempting to carry out what he had seen in the picture without intending to take his life.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 287, 28 April 1911, Page 5
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157BOY'S UNFORTUNATE END Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 287, 28 April 1911, Page 5
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