MAN COMMITS SUICIDE.
NELSON, January 9. At 6.30 this morning William F. Phillips, aged 33, formerly a traveller for Store-r, Meek, and Co.. committed suicide by hanging from a rafter in an outhouse in tlie garden of his house, Brookes street, where his mother is staying. Phillips had been 10 months in Wellington ?»fental Hospital previous to December i 14, and was advised by his doctor to i come here for a change. Tie staved witli | his -rr-latives in Nil© street. This morn- | ing he went to see his mother. left her to 'go into the garden, was fubsequently mifsed, and found as stated. He left an incoherent 1-rttcr ptatirn; the causes of | his suicide, bnt thpf will not transpire till the inqnest is held.
! A woman in Buda-Pe-th is seeking a divorce on the ground that her husband in- ■ sists on consulting- a doctor whenever he partakeo of a dish which she has prepared.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2861, 13 January 1909, Page 34
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155MAN COMMITS SUICIDE. Otago Witness, Issue 2861, 13 January 1909, Page 34
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