DYING MOTORIST CHASED

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 May 1937, Page 9

DYING MOTORIST CHASED

HAD JUST TAKEN POISON LONDON, April 11. A policeman's chase of a motor-car driven by a man dying from poison. 'Alindi he had just taken, was described to Mr. G. V. Humphreys, coroner for Wesi Denbighshire, at a, Colwyn Bay inquest yesterday. The inquest v. ar cm Frank Hubert Wright. 53. of The Bunjaldw-. Springhead, Sedgeley,

.Staffs, managing direefnr of a Birjmingliam firm of melal lintlon manufacturers. | A verdicl of .suicide while of tin hound mind was returned. > P.(‘. Idris M. .lopes, of Gian Conway, said he was ordered to search for I Wright following a message from the ' Birmingham police. This was that I Wright had written to a friend stating I Im intended to commit suicide at the I place in North 3\'ales where he had ‘camped four year:, ago. j The place was Croesau Farm. T'aly■C3sn. The constable was told that a 'motor-car had been parked in a lane

near there all the morning. "A-. Im saw me approach,"- said bones, ‘Wright, who was swaying, start;.d to drive the ear away. I blew 'my v 18. tie and ran after it. j "I .jumped on the running board, 'opened the door, and stopped the cur '.by switching off the engine. Wright Icollapsed and died in my' arms before lan emetic could be obtained." ; A brother-in-law,. Mr. H. J. Morpuss, .'said that on Friday he received from i Wright, a letter in which, referring to •his wife, he wrote, "Please be goad' 'to her. She has been everything to |me.”