MENTAL DEPRESSION
BUSINESS MAN'S. SUICIDE.
DUNEDIN, 24th December.
At the inquest on Harold Napthali, whose body was found hanging in the lift-well of his firm's premises, the coroner (Mr. Bundle, S.M.)-said that he knew the deceased, who was a man of bright and cheery temperament. From inquiries made it seemed that an incident which happened on the boat on which deceased was returning to New Zealand, after a ""trip 1 to the Old Country, had unduly aifected him. Deceased had persuaded a passenger to wear a fancy costume which unfortunately caught fire, and the passenger died. Deceased had carried the man, and was with him when he died. This incident seemed to have preyed upon Napthali's mind, and he was not in good health when he 1 came back. He became depressed, and his death was the result of that. - He had no financial worries of any kinr). The Coroner's finding was of suicide while in a state of extreme uitfiiniu depression.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 152, 26 December 1923, Page 10
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162MENTAL DEPRESSION Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 152, 26 December 1923, Page 10
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