SENSATIONAL SUICIDE.
A YOUNG MAN'S RASH ACT. "THE WOMAN HE HAD WRONGED." , By Telegraph—Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, Last Night. A suicide under rather sensational circumstances occurred here on Sunday morning. A young man named Finch, son of the Inspector of the Bank of New South Wales, who was for five years accountant for Mr C. A. Wilkinson, of Eltham, took strychnine. He had arrived here, with a lady friend 'by motor-car on Saturday evening, and purchased the poison that evening. He took the fatal dose on Sunday morning about nine o'clock. He had been served with a cup of tea by a maid, who found him writing in. bed. A letter was found indicating tlmt he intended to take his life, and declaring his sanity. He left a document unwitnessed, leaving .his three racehorses and car to "the woman hehad wronged." Another letter found on his body was from a solicitor, indicating that divorce proceedings were pending, with deceased as co-re-spondent.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10164, 14 February 1911, Page 5
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161SENSATIONAL SUICIDE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10164, 14 February 1911, Page 5
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