BOY'S SAD ACCIDENT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10753, 28 April 1911, Page 1

BOY'S SAD ACCIDENT.

(PEU I'j:WSS AK="ol.ilJOrO Wellington, April 27. Ronald Black, aged 17, a son of .lames William Black, private secretary to tlie Hon. D. Buddo, hanged himself with a strap in the bathroom at his parents' residence, Kelburne, shortly after lunch to-day. He had been to his studies in the" morning as usual, and at lunch time seemed in his normal health and spirits. His mother missed him, but thought he had returned to school. Later, when she went to the bathroom, .she found it locked, and investigation showed the boy was hanging by a strap dead. The boy's relatives state that a weelc or two ago he witnessed a moving picture representation of a man hanging himself or pretending to do so. Young Black had a passion for experiment, and it is thought he was attempting to carry out what he had. seen in the picture without intending to take his life.