INQUEST ON SUICIDE.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRINTCHURCH. Thursday. At an inquest on George Lancelot Blackett. aged .'SB. found lying on a bed in the Prince of "Wales Hotel at 8.30 a.m. to-day, with his throat cut from ear to ear, William .Morrison said he had known deceased for about two years. Blackett drank periodically, and had been an inmate of <i mental hospital for a week in October. He was sent there through the effects of drink. Since then he had been normal. Deceased always seemed of rather a happy disposition, and never appeared to be worried or depressed. The inquest was adjourned.
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Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 3, 4 January 1924, Page 9
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103INQUEST ON SUICIDE. Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 3, 4 January 1924, Page 9
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