SUICIDE BY POISON
DEATH OF ACCOUNTANT SHORTAGE IN FIRM’S CASH. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, December 6. ‘-Ho was surprised to see me and after showing me where the books were he left the office. When next I saw him he was dead. In the meantime I had found a shortage of £450 in the firm’s cash, of which he had been in charge.” These were the words uttered by W. E. Best, auditor, who gave evidence at the adjourned inquest on James Adair Hall, accountant lor the Hawarden b.anch of the Farmers’ Co-operative Association, who was found dead last Wednesday. The coroner, Mr Lawry, S.M., returned a verdict of suicide by poisoning.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12623, 7 December 1926, Page 3
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112SUICIDE BY POISON New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12623, 7 December 1926, Page 3
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