SUICIDE BY BREATHING GAS
ELDERLY MAN FOUND DEAD. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, January 12. Left digging in a garden yesterday and apparently in good spirits, John Shirtcliffe was found dead in a gastilled room four hours later. An Inquest was held before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., this morning when Elizabeth Shirtcliffe said that her husband was an old-age pensioner, his age being 71. He was a gardener by occupation. Her husband was digging in the garden when she and her daughter left the house about 12.30 yesterday afternoon, and Shirtcliffe was discovered at 4.30 in the kitchen. The room was full of gas and a tube from a gas ring v*; near his month. Dr. Pezaro was cal < d immediately and pronounced life to he extinct. In witness’s opinion her husband was depressed over a death in the family. A verdict of suicide by gas poisoning was returned.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 93, 14 January 1929, Page 6
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