SUICIDE OF MINER
WITHOUT A YORK OR- RESOURCES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ; CHRISTCHURCH-’ June ' 18i; A verdict of suicide by gas poisoning was given 'by the coroner, Mr E. 1). Mosley, iS.M., at the inquest this evening into the death of Andrew Jock, a West Coast miner, who was found dead in a shed at the rear of a house where he boarded in Christchurch. Jock had been out of work and short of money, and was in arrears with his board. The landlady had told him he must pay at least a part of the money due, or leave. This morning ho was found in, a shed with a sack over his head and an open gas jet inside the sack. Tie had been dead for some lion rs.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 19 June 1931, Page 5
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129SUICIDE OF MINER Hawera Star, Volume LI, 19 June 1931, Page 5
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