FALL TO DEATH
Suicide Verdict Follows By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, November 3. A verdict tliat Eric Reginald Smith, aged 33, connnercial traveller, threw himself from the top floor of the Strand Arcade while in great mental depression was returned at an inquest to-day. Evidence was given that the deceased had been in ill-health and was worrying about it. 'The father said that his sou was in a very nervous state and bad delusions that, a taxi driver recently murdered resembled him, and that the murderer intended to murder him and not the taxi driver. That preyed on bis mind. He was also under the impression that persons were following him to do him an injury.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 35, 4 November 1933, Page 17
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