SUICIDE AT AUCKLAND
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to "The Evening Post.")
AUCKLAND, This Day. A married man, William Jamos Lane, aged 59, was found dead at his residence, 17, Hayden street, on Saturday morning. Tlie deceased was in his usual good health shortly after 11 o'clock, whon his wife went out. On her return an hour later she found the bedroom door barred. The door was opened, and the deceased ivas found with his head covered by the bed clothes and the gas tube in his mouth. A doctor was summoned and pronounced life extinct.
An inquest was held, at which a verdict of suicide due to gas poisoning was returned.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 31, 7 February 1927, Page 10
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