A CORPORAL'S SUICIDE.
JUMPS OFF GRAFTON BRIDGE. By Telegraph.—-Press Association. Auckland, Sept. 18. Corporal Sydney Gibson, late N.Z Field Artillery, jumped from the Grafton bridge this morning, and was found with his neck broken, between the grave-' stones in the cemetery: , He was working at Rotorua as a laborer until a fortnight ago. Last night he appered normal, but this morning said to an acquaintance, '■' For God's sake get a policeman to arrest me; I am going mad." He dashed down the street, and evidently went direct to the Grafton bridge. He was 20 years of age, and it is believed his mother is in Sydney.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1920, Page 5
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106A CORPORAL'S SUICIDE. Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1920, Page 5
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