BURDEN TOO GREAT
Low Price of Butterfat OLD MAN’S SUICIDE By Telegraph—Press Association. Stratford, March 22. Alfred James Smith, aged 81, a prominent farmer of Cardiff, was found hanging in the motor shed on his farm to-day. A note found attached to his coat read as follows: ‘'This is to certify that I don’t intend being responsible for making butterfat below cost, viz., sixpence to sevenpence. I will let someone else try it. I’m too old to take the responsibility any longer.” A note written in shorthand was also found intimating where further letters to his family would be found. At the inquest one of his sons said deceased was despondent and had to be watched because a suicidal tendency was feared. He was continually complaining about the low price of butterfat. A verdict was returned by Mr. W. L. Kennedy, coroner, that deceased committed suicide by hanging while depressed over financial worries.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 151, 23 March 1934, Page 13
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153BURDEN TOO GREAT Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 151, 23 March 1934, Page 13
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