SUICIDE AT NEW PLYMOUTH GAOL.
NEW PLYMOUTH, July 19. On Friday afternoon-, a prisoner in the New Plymouth gaol named Allan 1 albert, 65 years of age, who was serving a sentence of reformative detention for a second conviction for indecent assault, committed suicide. When returning from work he suddenly said "good-bye friend" to a warder, and leaped over the bank, a distance of 50 feet, into the quarry, falling on rails for trucks, and expiring an hour later At the inquest on Saturday, a verdict of suicide, with no neglect by the officials, was returned,
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 19 July 1920, Page 5
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