DISMISSAL AND SUICIDE
AUSTRALIAN ENQUIRY. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] (Recd. September 5, Noon.) MELBOURNE, September 5. The report of the Royal Commission (Justice Napier), which inquired into the discharge from the Royal Australian Navy of Lieutenant-Com-mander Casey, has been issued. The Commission found that the retirement of Casey was necessary in the interests of the service, and that there was no impropriety in the manner adopted for his retirement, or, in fact, that he retired without compensation. Justice Napier concluded that Casey had recovered from the shock of his retirement, and that his suicide was either caused by “a sudden impulse, acting upon a mind predisposed to melancholia, or by some exciting cause not disclosed in the evidence. The action of the Naval Board was in accord with the statutory regulations, but I regret that no means were taken to prevent the decision of the Board coming so unexpectedly, and as such a shock to the officer.’’
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 September 1934, Page 7
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