THOUGHT SLEEPING WIFE DEAD
Husband Kills Himself Mr. Leonard George Croft, aged 53, of Fern Villas, Quickley Lane, Chorley Wood, Hertfordshire, was unable to wake his wife one morning recently. He thought she was dead, as she had taken four doses of a sleeping draught (he night before ■beeaus'e she could not sleep. Mr. Croft wrote a note explaining this and leaving all his property to his mother. Mrs. Croft, however, was sleeping heavily owing to the draught. She awakened to And her husband dead with his head in a gas-oven. The Watford coroner, Mr. R. A. Godman, recorded a. verdict of suicide while of unsound mind at the inquest.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 113, 6 February 1937, Page 24
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