"FINISHED ME."
"I AM GETTING OUT." SUICIDE'S FAREWELL LETTER. liy Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. "Dear Jack, —I am getting out. You 1 what that means. I feel both iivntally and physically unable to cope with a new scheme of life at 54, After II my previous worries and griefs, this strike nlTair has finished mo .... Good bye, old man. You have been a good friend. It will be a long sleep now. Yours as ever, Alfred J. Stevens." The above is an extract from a note which Alfred James Stevens, a sailor, aged 54 years, wrote to a friend on a letter card, just before taking poison at his house at Austen street on- Friday last. The note was written in ink, in a hand and in a style that disclosed a high degree of education, and with a steadiness that showed not the slightest trace of mental perturbation. At the inquest to-day, the evidence showed that deceased had been out of work for some time, and had spoken of suicide. The coroner returned a verdict that death resulted from poison, taken while of unsound mind.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 214, 10 March 1914, Page 8
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187"FINISHED ME." Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 214, 10 March 1914, Page 8
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