FOUND HANGED
, DEATH OF WELLINGTON SCHOOLBOY A NUREMBERGEXPERIMENT? (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 17. A schoolboy was found hanged in his bedroom at his home in Wellington on Monday afternoon. He was Edward Chockman Chee, aged 14, of Ellice avenue. The boy returned to his home as usual after school, and appeared to .be in his usual normal good spirits. He . went to his room with his school books. Later, when he was called, there was no response. His door was found by a member of the household to be locked. The boy’s body was seen from an outside window hanging in the room, with a dressing gown girdle round his neck.
A friend said to-night that he believed the boy’s death was accidental. The boy had been reading a good about the arrangements for hanging the condemned Nazis, and it was thought that the boy had been experimenting to see how long it was possible to endure hanging without
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 October 1946, Page 9
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