STOCKBROKERS SUICIDE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 30 September 1926, Page 7

STOCKBROKERS SUICIDE.

HIS FINANCIAL AFFAIRS. <.UV TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION .) AUCKLAND, Sept. 30. At the inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of Hassell George de F. Garland, who was found dead in his office 011 September 14, it was -stated that the day before he •died Garland failed to. keep several business appointments and went motoring al day. In his car was found a copy of ‘“Tales of Illusion,” and on a leaf was the following note in nis handwriting: “To many it must be a disappointment, to none more t-lian to myself. I do not know why I could- not have been taken during the war instead of being left to bring misery to many as a result of my folly. . Mi- Knight, a public accountant, .said that three months ago Garland had asked him to establish for him A -system of keeping accounts. Previously ho had not even a cash book. He had a large overdraft, but that was guaranteed by one of liis friends. He was not so'.vent, and must have had- considerable financial worry. Witness knew one association had entrusted Garland with £SOOO for investment in -debentures-. He used that to take- the place of •capital he did not possess, iliere was also a sum of £IOOO which witness believed was the cause of _his act. It was given, to him to invest -in inscribed stock, which he did not do. That, together with the fact that the bank was pressing him to reduce his overdraft-, or lodge- .security again-st at, and that the guarantor had asked for Garland’s guarantee to be withdrawn, was the immediate cause of Garland s financial worries. His papers showed that .he was £3300 out, exclusive' of private debts add inabilities. ' .. , £ • The coroner found n verdict ot suicide.