RICH MAN’S SUICIDE
Estate Valued at £30,000 (Received 19, 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 19. Estate valued at £‘30,000 was left bj Victor Clement Black, aged 14, a wellknown city manufacturer, who was recently found gassed in his office. On the door of the room in which he committed suicide he left a note warning people of the danger of gas. At the inquest Black’s brother gave evidence that deceased's wife died in December as the result of an overdose of a sleeping draught. Her death was a great shock to her husband. The coroner, returning a v ■ 1 suicide, said it would appea. at . Black’s action was caused throu . health and a nervous state foil, i I W’e death of his wife.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 57, 19 February 1935, Page 5
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