BODY FOUND IN DRAIN.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20918, 27 July 1933, Page 10

BODY FOUND IN DRAIN.

VERDICT AT INQUEST

MISSING COUNCIL EMPLOYEE

A verdict of suicide by cutting his throat with a razor on July 22 at Woolston was returned by the coroner, Mr H. P. Lawry, at an inquest held yesterday into the death of Patrick Carey, aged 51, of 177 Fitzgerald avenue, a city council employee, who was reported missing from his home on Sunday, and whose body was found yesterday with a wound in the throat lying in n drain at Woolston. The coroner added that the evidence showed that Carey had been .sufTering from nervous trouble for some time. Cyril William Wallis. a son-in-law, i gave evidence of identification. He said that Carey had been in ill-health, suffering from nervous trouble for several years, and had been under medical care for the last six weeks. He left home on his bicycle shortly after 9 a.m. on July 22 and did not return. He had 'lot been drinking at all heavily, but for health reasons it had been considered advisable for him to be prohibited from taking liquor. The summons had been served on him before he left homo. Carey had made an attempt to take his own life during another period of ill-health eight years ago. Constable E. L. Walton, of Wooiston, who represented the police at the inquest, gave evidence thai he organised a search party, which found the body in a drain containing a foot of water, with an open razor in one hand. There wis a deep wound in the left arm and a deep gash in the throat that severed the windpipe. Carey'.i bicycle had been seen nearby early in the morning of July 22, and the state of the body was consistent with | death having occurred at that time.