FOUND HANGED IN SHED.
FATE OF AGED FARMER. | I)V I'f\I.KiJII Vl'll. —OWN COKin SI'ONIU-.M. I f.'llltlSTClHTlU'll, Monthsv A tanner, tfamuel Bench, aged 73 of L*lliiiUoi Street. Christelnirt li. tool; his life by bunging himself at KilTclton on <(itiird;.,v Deceased ha.l farmed at K.ilTeiton illi:st iSopicmbor. when he and Ins wife came to live in 1 hi Kiti liurrli. His son took over the farm At the inipiest Harriet I'-cach said she married deceased m December, UJJ7, After coming k, Cliristchurch liei husband was us.imirierl and placed in the t'hrist-s-hurch Hospital The doctor had said ho ippcariHt depressed. Herbert Ikmch, aged 25, son of the deceased, pave evidence to the effect that, no found his father's body hanging from 11 rafter in n shed. A verdict was returned that deceased coinmi tted suicide by hanging himself ■do in a state of unsound mmd
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20084, 23 October 1928, Page 12
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142FOUND HANGED IN SHED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20084, 23 October 1928, Page 12
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