WOMAN’S SUICIDE
DEPRESSED OVER FAMILY TROUBLE By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, November 28. When Walter Edward Munday, a draper, of Sydenham, returned to his home in Salisbury Street for lunch today, he found his wife. Florence Munday, aged 69. lying dead in the scullery with her head in the gas oven. At an inquest this afternoon the Coroner, Mr. E. C. Levvey, returned a verdict of suicide while in a state of mental disturbance. The husband in evidence said his wife was in normal health, but had been somewhat depressed over some family trouble with her people. She had given no indication of an intention to take her own life.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 56, 29 November 1929, Page 13
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109WOMAN’S SUICIDE Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 56, 29 November 1929, Page 13
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