TRAGEDY AT WANGANUI

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18612, 21 July 1922, Page 7

TRAGEDY AT WANGANUI

A SORDID STORY. MAN TAKES POISON. tPM United Pbess Association.) WANGANUI, July 20. Henry Thomas M'Ewon, labourer, aged 45 years, married, committed suicide this morning. Extraordinary and sordid circumstances surround the case. Besides the deceased and his wife, another woman occupied the > house. All the parties had been indulging in a drinking bout. M'Ewcn appears to have attempted suicide on Tuesday by cutting his throat with a razor. Ho bled profusely, and bis clothes were covered with blood. In this condition he went out yesterday and purchased a bottle of whisky and a bottle of an irritant poison. On his returning home more drinking followed. The wife said that in the night the deceased stated that he had been drinking whisky, but evidently he had taken poison. In the moniing she found him dead. A razor was discovered in the room clotted with blood, and a mass of congealed blood in a wound in the neck. Deceased attempted his life some time ago, and he had been an inmate of the hospital for some time. The other occupants of the house are unable to give a coherent account of tho tragedy to the police.