SUICIDE AT AUCKLAND.
AUCKLAND, February 7.
A married man, William James Lane, aged 59, was found dead at his residence, 17, Hayden Street, on Saturday morning. The deceased was in his usual good health shortly after 11 o'clock when his wife went out. On her return an hour later she found the bedroom door barred. The door was opened, and the deceased was found with his 'head covered by the bed clothes and the gas tube in »his mouth. A doctor was summoned and pronounced life extinct.
An inquest was held, at which a verdict of suicide due to gas poisoning was returned.—fP-A.).
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Wairarapa Age, 8 February 1927, Page 6
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103SUICIDE AT AUCKLAND. Wairarapa Age, 8 February 1927, Page 6
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