SUICIDE BY POISONING.
AVON DALE MAN'S DEED. EVIDENCE AT INQUEST. As the result of drinking poison at his home at Avondale late on Monday night, John Henry Patrick Coyle died at "the Auckland Hospital yesterday morning. An inquest was held, before Mr. W. R. McKean,' S.M., Coroner, yesterday, Mrs. Coyle said that about midnight on Monday her husband went to the kitchen. She heard him call out to her and then he returned to the bedroom and said: "I'm done. I threatened to do it." Sho found a bottlo which had contained poison on the kitchen table. Her husband had been addicted to drinking Constable Douglas, who was summoned by a neighbour, deposed that when he arrived Coyle was in a state of stupor. He was taken to the hospital and died less than an hour after admission. The coroner returned a verdict of suicide by poisoning.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18946, 18 February 1925, Page 10
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