GERMAN COMMITS SUICIDE
The police at Lower Hutt received word yesterday that a German named Johann Carl Umverract, residing in Swamp-road Wainni-o-mata, had committed suicide by hanging. Further enquiries elicited that the deceased was found by two schoolboys yesterday hanging by a rope suspended from a rafter in the barn at the rear of his dwelling. The deceased, who is described as a farm worker, was 77 years of age. There is no known motive for the act.
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 147, 22 June 1916, Page 8
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78GERMAN COMMITS SUICIDE Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 147, 22 June 1916, Page 8
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