LETTER TO FRIEND

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 280, 21 August 1940, Page 6

LETTER TO FRIEND

Alan Who Was Found Shot In Head t By Teleiri'ri pl) —Press A.ssocialioii.) Al't'Kl/AND, August 20. A letter inliintiliiig bis intention of committing suicide lieetiuse of (lie recent. deutli of liis lianeee was produced al an inquest before, Mr. I-'. K. Hunt, coroner, into (lie deatli of a .voting man whose body with a bulief wound in tlie head was found near the fop of Mould Hobson on Monday night. Deceased was idenlilied as Alban Arthur Custauce, labourer, single, aged 2s. A id or .Midgley said he shared a flat with Ciisf.aneo in Grafton. Ctistaiwe was alone when witness left tlie Ila: on .Monday evening, and. though h" was in good health, he hail ln.i'ii very depressed since tl-.-e death of his lianeee. Fay Alexander, on .Inly 26. "lie. was no more depressed than hud been usual since her death when I left the flat,” witness continued. "He never stated his intention of committing suicide, and I had no reason to believe Unit was his intention. As far as I know he did not possess a firearm. When I returned home I found a letter from Cnst,'nice signifying his intention of committing suicide and advising that his body would be found mi the top of Mount Hobson." Witness added that Cnslnm-e was :i Canadian and a graduate of St. John's College. Winnipeg. Ho believed his only living relative was a sister living in Canada. The imprest was adjourned.