HASTINGS SUICIDES
VERDICTS OF CORONER SON’S STORY OF FATHER'S ACTIONS £ Per Press Association.] HASTINGS, Feb. 16. “This is another tragic case where a well respected man found his i troubles too much for him,” said Mr. | G. Ebbett, coroner, at the inquest I into the death of Duncan McLean, I who was found with his throat cut on j January 21. The 14-year-oid son of McLean described how his father the previous night had beaten him and jabbed him with a broken broom handle, forcing the boy and his brothers to escape through a window. McLean had been a good father previously, said witness. It was obvious that McLean had been overcome by his worries, said the coroner, and became mentally deranged. A verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned. At the inquest into the death ol William Laurence Stoddard, aged 33, who was found in a gas-filled room on February 10 the evidence of Stoddart’s mother revealed that he had been involved in an accident two years ago. Since then he had been haunted by a fear of insanity. A verdict of suicide while in a depressed frame of mind was returned by the coroner.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 40, 17 February 1939, Page 11
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198HASTINGS SUICIDES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 40, 17 February 1939, Page 11
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