MAN’S AGONY
DRIVES HIM TO SUICIDE. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, July 8. “If anything happens to me, I cannot help it,” wrote Frederick Charles Lawrenson to relatives, prior to his admittance to the Christchurch Hospital on Wednesday evening, suffering from acid poisoning, from which he died on Thursday. “I know it is either this or the asylum. The agony I have been suffering is unbearable.” The above note was produced at the inquest, before Mr Mosley, S.M., today. The evidence was that Lawrenson had suffered from a minor complaint (piles), which caused him great pain at times. At the hospital, poison antidotes were administered, and for 12 hours his condition improved, but afterwards he grew worse. The inquest was adjourned pending a post mortem.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 July 1927, Page 11
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