HANGED HIMSELF
CARPENTER COMMITS SUICIDE. Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, February lit. At au early hour this morning John Carter, a resident at No. 867, Colombo street, found the body of his brother, Robert Bennetts Carter, hanging from a branch of a tree in the backyard. The deceased, who was forty years of ago, was a single man and a carpenter by trade. Ho had been eccentric in his manner and behaviour for some time past. Usually ho slept in a tent. On going to the tent about 5.30 o’clock this morning his brother found tho deceased missing. Ho noticed bloodstains in tho yard, and on making a search found the deceased hanging by a rope round his neck from the branch of the tree. Deceased had first attempted suicide by cutting himself with a razor on both arms in front of the elbow-joints and 'on the right side of tho neck. Ho was quite dead when found.
Au inquest was held, and a verdict returned that deceased committed suirido while temporarily insane.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8654, 12 February 1914, Page 5
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