SUICIDE VERDICT
N.Z. DOCTOR’S DEATH !N LONDON
(Received 1.30 p.m.)
LONDON. December 1
At an inquest into the death of Dr. William Alfred Fitzherbert, aged 29 a New Zealander, who was found asphyxiated in his bath at the Hospital of Tropic Diseases at St. Paneras, of which he had recently been appointed supenji|JerJ|dent. a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned.
The coroner expressed the opinion that the doctor had possibly last faith in himself. The amount of morphia, in his body indicated it had not been taken as a stimulant.
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Northern Advocate, 2 December 1936, Page 8
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