AUCKLAND SUICIDE

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 242, 9 July 1938, Page 15

AUCKLAND SUICIDE

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

By Telegraph—Prese Association.

Auckland, July 8.

“Well, they are married. One can only hope that their lives will be forever happy, that nothing will ever break or mar the love which brought them together. The bride, well, she looked lovely, nearly as good as my dear Rosie did. It seems so long ago. It rather strikes my imagination. Rosie —Alf, December 22, 1934; ThelmaGeorge, June 11, 1938. Everything is half; rather peculiar. Well, let my last prayer be that they remain for ever happy.” That note, in the handwriting of Alfred Frederick Voice, aged 31, was found on a table in the dining-room of his home in Mount Roskill on Wednesday, June 15. In another room Voice's body was found, and in the room was also a motor-cycle. The door and window of the room were closed and oil fumes could be smelled.

At the inquest Wilfred Subritxky said he lived next door to Voice, whom he had known for 18 months. Before Julie 15 he had not seen Voice fol- a week. On June 15 someone called on witness and asked if he had seen Voice about. They went to Voice's house and entered by the back door, which was not locked. On the table in the diningroom was a wallet containing £l3/10/and a note written by Voice. In the rear room Voice was lying on the floor, a blanket covering the lower half of bls body. He was dead. A motor-cycle was In the room. Witness had heard its engine running in the room on the previous Sunday morning. Frederick Voice, newsagent, said the dead man Was Ills son and was a motor- mechanic. His son was married in December, 1934, and there was one child of the marriage. In November, 1936, his wife deserted him and he had made every effort to trace her and the child, and because he had failed to And them he would get very despondent. For a few weeks before his death he had been working at Tahuna, near Morrinsville. Constable White said when he examined the body in the house there were no marks of violence.

Dr. Gilmour gave evidence that death was due to carbon monoxide poisoning. A verdict whs returned that Voice had committed suicide, death being caused by carbon monoxide poisoning.