OLD MAN'S SUICIDE

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 246, 17 October 1922, Page 8

OLD MAN'S SUICIDE

IN'WKST AT WHANi.AKKI. iH.v Telegraph. -Own Ciirrps|iuii<Jeni.) \VHAN<;.\Ki:i. Monday. An iiii|Ucst was held (hi< afternoon before Mr. ('. H. ( hissi-11. acting eoronpr. with a jury, on tlie body of John Alexander JWI. aged SJ. xvliu committed suieidu by shooting himself with an improvised jfiin i>ll Sunday afternoon near Otaika Road brwlire. When the body was searched »t flic morgue after the i.nifii'dy the following letter ifa, found iv his elolhiiijj. addressed to (lie rt>rj»eailt ><i police. Wlmngaroi: — "Why I did take my lite N,> ,nte is ii> blame. I made the pin. I got 1 lie look from .Marshall's four years ago. and iiiadv preparation. The climax. Seiility mid senile ilvcay at S-J years. Uorn HiMli November. l"s4n. Island of

Greiula." The letter, .uiitimiinjr. -poke of pby-i----cal a mictions and liein» ;( burden to his neifflibour*. and loneliKlinj;: "(Jod forX'vi'it mc for the act. and will receive my soul. .May <;,,<! f.ujrivv them that would deprive mr oi wlmt tlie doctor prescriibcd for mc. They ntupper] ibe malt." Ur. Hall [medical siiperinu-ndeiit r.f the Whanjcarti Huspitali stated that deceasvd was frenaraUy of a theerful disinwltion. lie Miflered from senile Übcov and bronchitis, in comiiumi with other aged |JHtient«. (in Sunday be seemed M»'t irnial. It ua< not known thai deceased pof-ws.-ed an iinprovU'i] gun l produced). lie «a< of opinion thai deeea«ed Iniiiiiired under an hallucination or illusion, because a* n matter t ,f fact uinlt Mml cud liver oil bad been KiVen to him rjjrlij ~|, ~, Simdnv Ne.illK'i- was iiis medicii:e stopped. A ven.icL was relurnod that ducea*od committed suicide by «hi.oHm.< himself with an iinprovi-ed KUII YV ],;|f> (~„„„,. riirily insane."