ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
VERDICT OF SUICIDE. . Yesterday evening Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., sitting as coroner, held an inquest on the body of James William Elsom, aged sixty-one, who was found dead yesterday morning in the cellar of his home tt Mans ford, near Port Chalmers. Evidence was given by the deceased’s daughter, by Dr Borrio, and by a police constable. A verdict of suicide while in a state of extreme mental depression was returned.
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Evening Star, Issue 18161, 29 December 1922, Page 6
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75ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS Evening Star, Issue 18161, 29 December 1922, Page 6
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