LABOURER'S SUICIDE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, 22nd May.
A verdict of suicide was returned by the Coroner (Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.) today concerning the death of George Somerville Hodgson, a labourer, aged 43, who succumbed to injur :s received through jumping out of a window on the third floor of the Wallace Ward at tho Auckland Hospital. A brother gave evidence that Hodgson had been out of work for some time, and was suffering from insomnia. He had seen his brother the day before he had-jumped out of the window (7th April), and he then seemed quite cheerful.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 120, 23 May 1930, Page 10
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