FINGER-PRINT CLUB
DEADiMAN'SoiPENTitY "
LYALL BAY SUICIDE' CASE
Finger-prints played a large part in' establishing, the. identity of Alexander: Malcolm McLeod,:;a:returned isbldier,who was, found;.:dead' in 'a''^as-filled-room in*house: at .lyall.Bay.W-Suii-day. When'; the .-police . visited--the house and found the deceased's body there, was-iiothingv..to' shotf who" he was. Senior: Sergeant^Dirinie, .of: the Criminal Registration: Branch- took the. deceased's finger-prints, and'from"them was able-to; ascertain:his'name. The body was later identified at the morgue by Henry-Edward Green', at whose home tho deceased occasionally slept a night.v: ■.:■:'.. ...:.■:'.■ ,-- .-;■'. ■■■.■•:..,.••■..-..-
Evidence at an inquest to-day before the Coroner, Mr. T.IB. McNeil, -S.Miy showed that the deceased, who was in receipt of a soldier's pension, had been an. inmate of a mental home, and since Ms discharge had been "suffering; pain's in the ,hbad and sleeplessness. Ho had been in the habit'"of sleeping in.the hills, and had discussed the question' of committing /suicide.: It was" also stated that McLeod had £25 to his credit iii the Post Office Savings Bank.:" ■ ? Mr. McNeil returned a finding that the deceased had died from snibidc by; gas-poisoning. ■'■ V ■ ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 10, 13 January 1932, Page 11
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