‘I am so sail and miserable; I cannot live any longer. I gave up health, children, and career, for what—only to be east ofP. AVell, I have deserved all I got and more. I have been at the wicket for more than sixty years, but now I am bowled out—stumped! I do not complain. I will die like a sportsman, trusting in the mercy of God towards a repentant sinner. ’ ’ This passage from a letter addressed to his ; son was stated to have been written shortly before.he took his life by coalgas poisoning, by Henry Oliver (61), salesman, who was found dead at a boarding house in Bayswater. The letter was read at the inquest. The son stated that his father left his wife some years ago, and went away with spmeqne else. Recently he had lived alone/ “Suicide while of unsound
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 October 1924, Page 7
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