SUICIDE
(BY TELEGRAPH.—-rRESS ASSOCIATION.)
DUNEDIN, 25th September.
A farm labourer named W. F. Johnstone, employed by Mr. P Sim, at* Crookston, committed suicide by hanging himself with a piece of fencing wire, in'an unoccupied hut, which he iset on fire before taking his life. When Mr. Sim went to investigate the walls were falling in, and the body was much burned. Deceased, who had been in the district only a few months, had previously been an inmate of a mental hospital.
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Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 75, 26 September 1916, Page 8
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81SUICIDE Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 75, 26 September 1916, Page 8
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