A BOOKMAKER'S SUICIDE.
AN UNHINGED MIND.
. [BY TELEGRAPH.— ASSOCIATION.]
Waijiate, Monday. A middle-aged man named Robert Hyland Smith, well-known as a bookmaker, committed - suicide at 11.30 o'clock last night by cutting his throat with a razor. He was fined last week for assaulting an old man on the show grounds whilst drunk, and this and other things preyed on his mind.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14219, 16 November 1909, Page 5
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61A BOOKMAKER'S SUICIDE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14219, 16 November 1909, Page 5
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