DETERMINED SUICIDE.
PRISONER’S PREPARATIONS
PRECAUTIONS AGAINST ALARM
,By Telegrapli—lresa Association.) AUCKLAND, Jari. 24
The precautions taken by Manuel Wilson, a labourer aged 29, to prevent surprise while he took his life in a cell at the Mount Eden prison yesterday were described at the inquest this morning. Wilson, a Maori who was on remand on theft charges, was given his breakfast at 6.50 a.m. yesterday. After eating it he laid a blanket on the floor of his cell and on top placed a wooden stool.
He was found by a warder at 8.10 a.m. hanging from the electric light bracket with a towel tied in a slipknot round his neck. The stool, when he kicked it away, fell on the blanket, which deadened the noise. No complaint had been made by Wilson at breakfast time.
Immediately the body was found it was taken down, but life was extinct. The coroner returned a verdict of death due to hanging.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 January 1929, Page 5
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