COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER’S SUICIDE
CUTS THROAT WITH RAZOR. [Per Press Association,] BLENHEIM, Last Night. A man named Alexander Mac Lean, aged 54, a commercial traveller representing Royd Bros and Kirk, merchants, Christchurch, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor this morning in his bedroom at the Terminus Hotel, Picton. He arrived in Picton from Blenheim on Saturday evening, and went with a fishing party to the Sounds on Sunday, returning in his usual normal spirits. During the night ho complained of feeling unwell, and received some whisky from the licensee, which was not used. The chambermaid found his body this morning in a pool of blood, with a razor along-, side. He wrote four letters on Sunday, addressed and stamped them. None gave any indication of the act.
The coroner returned a verdict of suicide, there being no evidence to show the state of his mind when the act was committed.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3494, 2 November 1926, Page 9
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152COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER’S SUICIDE Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3494, 2 November 1926, Page 9
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