A SCHOOLBOY’S SUICIDE
MERE CHILD HANGS HIMSELF
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright
MELBOURNE, October 7.
(Received October 7, at 9.5 a.m.)
Eric Xorman Edwards, the 12-yoar-old son of a Warrnambool business man, committed suicide by hanging himself to a tree in the Albert Park, Warrnambool.
Edwards and another boy were going to school, and Edwards's companion noticed a clothes-line under the other’s coat. Edwards explained that ho had found it. Shortly after he left his companion, saying that ho had forgotten to call at the hutvher’s shop. He then went into the park. It is staled that Edwards’s father had .spoken to him the same morning about playing truant from school. The boy declared that he was flogged daily at school, but the evidence showed that he had not been punished for the past three months. Prior to the middle of September he had been a bright and well-behaved lad.
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Evening Star, Issue 15308, 7 October 1913, Page 6
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