TWO SUICIDES
.IT TILIORAPa.— PRISS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, 27th March. Aji inquest was held yesterday at Waikari touching the death of Eric Andrew Black, aged 30, a single man who had been found shot^t Paanassus. Deceased had been considerably depressed of late and was suffering from the fear that he would go wrong in his head. He had told his sister that he would be better dead than alive. He left home at 7.30 a.m. on Wednesday, as if to go to Culverden, but some time later his body was found in a sheep pen, with a gunshot wounfi in the head. There was a gun lying near him. A verdict was returned that death was due to a gunshot wound inflicted by deceased while in a state of unsound mind. ' DUNiiDIN, 27th March. The Superintendent of Police has received a telegram from St. Bathans stating that Chris+ina Sutherland Wil- ( liamson, a mairied woman, of Blackstone Hill, committed suicide yesterday by drinking ?. quantity of poison.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 74, 28 March 1914, Page 5
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164TWO SUICIDES Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 74, 28 March 1914, Page 5
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