NO EVIDENCE OF SUICIDE
INQUEST INTO DEATH OF ACCOUNTANT (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, August J2. At the inquest on Eric Miller Edgar, the well-known city accountant, whose body was found on the beach near Anawhata yesterday, the wife. Myrtle Edgar, gave evidence that in May last her husband left his home at Mount Eden and did not return until late at night, when he said he had been away in the hills to think over business. Her husband had no financial worries although he worried oyer business, "There is nothing in the evidence to lead me to suppose that this lO case of suicide*” said, the coroner, mt Wyvern WilSom in returning a verdict. "The evidence leads me to believe that he went to the west coast to walk off his worries and that something happened to cause his death.”
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21860, 13 August 1936, Page 4
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