WISHED TO DIE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 222, 19 September 1930, Page 5

WISHED TO DIE.

FARMER IN NORTH AUCKLAND, ONE THEE FSOEESSOR AT SINGAPORE. VEKDICT AT 3XQHEST. fsr Telegraph.—Chra Correspondent.) "WBANGARET, Thursday, An inquest concerning the death oi Henri Germane, farmer, of Kokopu. believed at one time to have been pro- ! lessor of languages and economies at the University of Singapore, was held at tie District Hospital this afternoon. The hospital superintendent said Germane was admitted at 9-30 on Wednesday morning with symptoms of ha vine taken cooper sulphate. He died at 10.45. Josephine Germane said she remembered her rather saying a week before, "It's a pity we f meaning her mother, brother, herself and him) are not dead." 5 On Wednesday morning she heard her mother call, and found her supporting her father, who had bluesione about- his fats and lips. They too khini into the house, where he pointed to a note on a table, the contents of which were: *Tife is unbearable for me. I find it courageous to put an end to it. Dear family, too late.—Henri Germane. 3 * Witness said that her father had worried a great deal about a sick brother 5 in hospital and financial matters, j Lucy Germane said she accompanied jher husband to Xew Zealand 11 years i ago, they being naturalised British sub- | jeets. Several times in the past month he had expressed a wish to die... j Paul Kokici said his neighbour worried on account of not being able to work. On the way to the hospital he was quite conscious. -The coroners finding -was "that deces?-4 died of heart raQnre following tie r Trri° n °* copper sulphate, self- ■ admh- .ered When in & state of depression.