EX-SOLDIER’S DEATH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 3108, 29 December 1921, Page 5

EX-SOLDIER’S DEATH.

I-Al) health and depression. ASH BURTON, Dec. 28. \ suicide under most distressing cmrnnistances took place .it Riverside en December 26th, The deceased Faa aged 52, was for some time a. .(, 0 acclimatisation reserve at ILikaku, bnl since then he had lived with b wi ; | and family in extreme poverty. ’ coas !>?•' :nli;'“iS'ii"! rr A c^-i;fci» vvonmV'with a razor above (ho left, elbow was the cause ol death. A 1 voinig son regarding the disposal ot varum articles was written by the deceased on back of a hller from the edilm n M Christchurch Star, eomplimenti. g him oi winning the second prize in he St-n coinpotilion witl lie porm o ■■ of Honwrnbrjnice.* The District < oroiicr, Mr da mis Low conducted an inquest yesterday he ev deuce showed «h:;l .MeAlaster had cm for nine months in the European w.i, after home service since his retuni lie \w subject to repeated (Us ol depression, ih coroner returned a verdict that decease died from a self-inflicted wound while s. fcriim from had bealll. and depression. I added a rider that a service men m i anxietv for the welfare and health ol h wife and family should not have bee allowed bv bis country, which be bad fail fullv served, and whose' end was. aeeoulie lo '(lie evidence, brought ahom bv Ik: health, to live and die under conditions . extreme poverty.