LABOURER’S SUICIDE.

Grey River Argus, 21 July 1922, Page 2

LABOURER’S SUICIDE.

IN SORDID CIRCUMSTANCED. AFTER A DRINKING BOUT. (Per Press Association.) * . WANGANUI, July 20. Henry Thomas McEwen, labourer, 45 years, married, committed suicide this morning. Extraordinary and sordid circumstances surround the case. Besides the deceased and his wife, another wornltn was an occupant of the house. All the parties had Iw'en indulging in a drinking bout. McEwen appears to have attempted suicide on Tuesday by cutting his throat with a razor. Tie bled profusely and his clothes w*re covered with blood. In this condition he went out yesterday and purchased a bottle of whisky and a bottle of lysol. On returning home more drinking followed. His wife said that in the night deceased stated that lie had been drinking whisky but ’ ' ho Dad taken lysol. This morning she found him dead. A razor was discovered in his room clotted with blood. There was a mass of congealed blood in the wound in his neck. Deceased attempted his life some time ago, and was an inmate of a hos- , pital for some time. 1 The other occupants of the house are unable to give any coherent account of the tragedy to the police.