A YOUTH'S SUICIDE.
. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) TE AWAMUTU, this day. William Arnold Headway, 20 yeare,the son of a settler of Paterangi, died yesterday as the result of taking. rabbit poison. He left his bed at day-' break, and went to a shed where the poison was stored,, and was subsequently found in bed. He died almost immediately. At the inquest before Mr. J. B. Teasdale, coroner, on Thursday, a verdict that death was due to poisoieelfadministered while temporarily insane, was returned. Deceased did not fully recover from an attack of influenza, and has been constantly depressed. One brother was killed in action, and another ~ has just returned from France.
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 127, 29 May 1919, Page 6
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A YOUTH'S SUICIDE.
Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 127, 29 May 1919, Page 6
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