BOY'S DEATH
Coroner McKeown, of Putnam County, •held an inquest on tho death of Ernest Murello, 17 years old. whoso neck was broken when he slipped and fell or deliberately jumped from a wall after he had tied one end of a leasli to a limb of a tree and the other round his neck. t Miss Cora Mason, young Murello s friend of several years, was with him at tho time She said she had twice refused to raarrv him when he had asked her during an automobile ride, and that hp had then declared he would kill himself. Miss Mason took his words for a joke, she and did not believe that he would carry out his threat when he got out of the car and mounted a stone wall. When he suddenly swung out from the wall she ran for help. A few nvinule© later when she returned to tho spot with others Murello was dead, his neck broken. Miss Mason said she did not know whether he slipped from the wall or committed suicide.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12248, 21 September 1925, Page 3
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