DIVORCE AND SUICIDE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 110, 10 May 1923, Page 9

DIVORCE AND SUICIDE.

C O.R£SPONI>ENT'S DEATH. AS I'HVXUTE!) BY COAL GAS. (Bj TdeeraDS-P'* 83 Association.) ODXEDIN, Wednesday, llhcrt Jam es Coding, 43 years of age, •with liia wife and four clulJren at i Street, was found dead in JjSfirtU. home at 6.30 this { O TL inquest, Ellen Coding, wife of rt : deceased, said that he had been mrine about a divorce cnse in which , T%»\ co-respondent, and had made | about doing away with • rtlf The witness saw her husband •SJffor the laet time about seven yes- '"? gnd on going into the kitchen toeing she found him lying on rjoor with a gas tube in his mouth 4. coat over his head. The gas was !™ed on and life was extinct. The •wees was 6 oin S to COD,mc " C(! divorce "ncMdings against the deceased after Isowntasc was over. Hiabeth Jane Stewart said she had j hiown deceased for tho last six years, I 8»w him at her home in Grange Street last night He seemed worried ,rthe divorco case which was pending. |er husband was taking proceedings in jhieh the deceased was co-respondent. ii, ga iel he would see witness apiin. She <w living apart from her husband. Hβ cornier returned a verdict of micide by ooal-gas poisoning.