SUICIDE BY POISONING.
PAINTER’S TRAQIO END. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Wednesday. "It seems I was never meant to have any luck ” was the tragio sentence in a note left by Reuben David Jacobsen (35), painter, who was found dead in a bedroom in his house at Morningside on Saturday shortly before noon. A doctor was summoned and he found a strong smell of a powerful poison in the room, also In a glass and on the dead man’s lips. At the inquest to-day the widow gave evidence that relations with her husband normally were friendly. She was away shopping when his death occurred. He had never stated his intention* to take his life.
A stepdaughter (15) gave evidence that she saw her father return from the city, and later saw him with a glass containing two lumps of a white substance. He retired to -his room, telling her that he did not wish to be disturbed. She then heard him groan, and found him lying on the floor, and she called a neighbour, a doctor and the police.
The coroner found that death was due to suicide by poisoning.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20263, 4 August 1937, Page 8
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189SUICIDE BY POISONING. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20263, 4 August 1937, Page 8
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