A WIFE'S SUICIDE.
HUSBAND'S TRAGIC DISCOVERY. By Telepapn.—Press Associating Christchurch, Last Night. When S. K. Bassett, of Richmond Hill, Sumner, arrived home from tho city on Tuesday evening, he found his wife lying dead in the wash-house with a pillow under her head, while gas was escaping from a tube laid near the deceased's face. Mrs. Bassett, who was 44 years old, had apparently lain down after turning the gas on. A doctor who was summoned stated she had been dead some hours. At the inquest a verdict was returned that death was due, to gas poisoning, self-administered while deceased was in a state of despondency.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1920, Page 5
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106A WIFE'S SUICIDE. Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1920, Page 5
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