BECAME DESPONDENT.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 July 1938, Page 5

BECAME DESPONDENT.

FAILED TO FIND WIFE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Last Night. “Well, they are married, and one can only hope that their lives will be forever happy and that nothing will ever break or mar the love which brought them together. The bride . . . well .... she looked lovely . . . nearly as good as my dear Rosie did. it seems so long ago. It rather strikes my imagination. Rosie —Alt', December 22, .11)34; Thelma —George, June 11, 1938. Everything is half —rather peculiar. Well, let my last prayer bo that they remain forever happy.” That note, in the handwriting of a dead man, Alfred Frederick Voice, aged 31, was found on the table in the dining room of his home at Mount Roskill on Wednesday, June 15. In another room tlie body of the dead man was found and in the room was also a motor-cycle. The door aad window of the room were closed ami oil fumes could be smelled.

At the inquest, Wilfred Subrit/ky said he lived next dour to deceased, whom he had known for IS mouths prior to June 15. He had not seen deceased for a week. On Wednesday, June 15, B. Bond called on witness and asked if lie had seen deceased about. They went to deceased’s house and entered by the back door, which was not locked. On the table in the dining room was a wallet ‘•ontaming tHM 10s and a note written by deceased. . In the rear room deceased was lying on the lioor with a blanket covering the lower half of his body. A motor-cycle was in the room ami oil fumes could bo smelled. Witness had heard the engine of deceased’s motor-cycle running in the room on the

previous .Sunday morning. Frederick Voice, newsagent, Dominion road, said deceased was his son and a motor-mechanic. Deceased was married in December, 1934, and there was one child of the marriage. In November, 1930, his wife deserted him and deceased had made every effort to trace her and the child and because he had failed to find them he would get very despondent. For a few weeks prior to his death deceased had been working at Tahuna, near Morrinsville. The note found on the dining room table was in deceased’s handwriting.

Constable White said that when he examined the body in deceased’s home there were no marks of violence. Dr. Gilmour gave evidence that death was due to carbon monoxide poisoning. A verdict was returned that deceased had committed suicide, death being :aused by carbon monoxide poisoning.