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Grey River Argus, 10 December 1926, Page 5

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1 A DOAI ESTIU TRAGEDY. ] AUCKLAND, Dec. 9. H An inquest concerning the death oL i \V. 11. Ashton, aged 32, who was found dead in the Domain yesterday, was*, held to-day. Dr. E. N. Drier said he | found a small bottle smelling strongly . «'f hydro-cyanic acid beside the body. I Dr. D. N. W. Murray, who made a ’ post mortem examination, said he was 1 of opinion that death was due to shock 1 following the taking of cyanide poison. ’ David Nelson McGregor, who board- 3 ed with deceased at 10, Scotia Place, 1 said that when ho (witness) left I work at eight o’clock, deceased ap- - pcared quite normal. Later witness re- ’ eoived a. telephone message saying something had happened, and he found 1 u note in his bed from deceased, say 1 ing he was about lo commit suicide. ( Deceased served in the Great War, an<’ Was in receipt of a pension, lie had a shrapm l wound in the lung, ami this worried him considerably. ' ■ The Coroner returned a. verdict of suicide bv poisoning. hiiin im~- ■—■■iii»nrrni»T«««iiMß '