SUICIDE BY HANGING.
[ "': < A "RESULT OF INSOMNIA. I AND WORRY. f ... [UNITED' PBES3 ASSOCIATION.] i '.-'"'. " y OAMARU, Thursday. - : Mr Peter Walker, aged about 55, a . well-known and respected farmer at Waiareka, cbminittfd suicide bj .. hanging -.last evening. The deceased slept, with one of his sons, both retiring at 'B o'clock. At 11 o'clock the sor : woke, and,, missing his father, called |: his brother, 1 and the lads, on searching, found the father hanging from £ tree; at the back of the^ house, dead. No reason is assigned for the rasr. act -other than that the deceased hac complained 7of insomnia and worry. A doctor was 1 attending him. A ninquesi ■ is" being • held this afternoon.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, 14 March 1907, Page 3
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114SUICIDE BY HANGING. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, 14 March 1907, Page 3
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