ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
CHRISTCHURCH SUICIDE. By Telegraph.-*-Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. Charles Hancock (68), committed suicide this morning by hanging himself. At the inquest a verdict was returned that deceased committed suicide while in a depressed state of mind owing to sickness. SUPPOSED SUICIDE. Early yesterday morning the body of John Edward Pritchard, a married man, aged 34 years, was found in the Waingongoro River at his farm on the lower Stuart Road under circumstances which indicate suicide. About 5.30 a.m. he left his house to bring in his cows for milking purposes, but as he did not return with them in the usual time his wife became alarmed. A search was instituted and the body found as stated about 6 o’clock. The deceased had not been in good health recently, and as he had no occasion to go near the river for the cows the sad occurrence is not likely tn Uve been accidental.—Argus.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1921, Page 5
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155ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1921, Page 5
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