WOMAN TAKES OWN LIFE.
ACT DUE TO DEPRESSION.
[by telegraph.—press association.] CHRISTCHURCH. Thursday.
When Mr. Walter Edward Munday, a draper, of Sydenham, returned to his home in (Salisbury Street for luncheon to-day ho found his wife, Mrs. Florence Munday, aged 69, lying dead in the scullery, with her head in a gas oven. At an.inquest concerning her death this afternoon the coroner, Mr, ]i). Ijcvvey, returned a verdict of suicide while in a state of mental disturbance. Iler husband, in evidence, said his wife was in normal health, but had been somewhat depressed over some family trouble with her peoplo. She had given no indication of an intention to take her own life.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20425, 29 November 1929, Page 16
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113WOMAN TAKES OWN LIFE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20425, 29 November 1929, Page 16
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