KILLED HIMSELF ON SUDDEN IMPULSE?
[Special To “Northern Advocate ”] NAPIER, This Day. Commenting that it was probably a sudden impulse which was difficult to account for, the coroner. Mr A. E. Bedford. returned a verdict at an inquest that Edward Frank O'Neill, a labourer, died in a police cell at' Napier, because of death being aspliyxiation duo to
strangulation self-inflicted. O’Neill had been found lying on a bunk in a cell at Napier Police Station at 11 o’clock on Monday night with a pair of sox knotted tightly round hie neck. He was to have appeared before the court on a charge concerning a young girl, The coroner added lo the verdict that, on the evidence, there appeared to be no special reason why the deceased should take his life and he was satisfied everything humanly possible had been done to restore life.
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Northern Advocate, 5 January 1938, Page 6
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