VERDICT OF SUICIDE
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER’S DEATH. SUFFERING FROM DELUSIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association. j AUCKLAND. Nov. 3. A verdict that Eric Reginald Smith, a commercial traveller, threw himself from the top floor of the Strand Arcade while in a state of great mental degression was returned at an inquest to-day. Evidence was given that deceased had been in ill health and worrying about it. His father said Ins .son was in a very nervous state and had delusions that the taxi-driver recently murdered resembled him, and that the murderer intended to murder him. and not the taxi-driver. That preyed on his mind. He was also under the impression that persons were following him to do him injury.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 3 November 1933, Page 7
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