SUICIDE AT DUNEDIN.
WORRY OVER DIVORCE CASE
(Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, last night. Albert James Coding,. forty -three years of age, living with his wife and four children at 86 Dundas Street, was found dead in the kitchen-at hift home at 6.30 this morning. - . ; • Ellen Coding, wife of deceased, deposed that he had! been worrying about a divorce case in which he waa co-re-spondent, and had made some remarks about doing away with himself. ■■ Witness saw deceased' for the hist time about 7 o'clock yesterday, and going-into the kitchen this morning she found deceased lying on the floor with the gas tube in his mouth and a coat over his head. The gas was turned on and life was extinct. Witness was going to commence divorce proceedings against deceased after his own case was over.
Elizabeth Jane Stewart said: she had! known the deceased for the last jsix years and' saw him at her borne in Grange Street last) night. He seemed! worried over the divorce case"which was pending. Her husband was taking proceedings, in which deceased was co-re-spondent. Deceased 1 said; he would see witness again. Witness was living apart from her husband. -.- .
The Coroner returned a. verdict of suicide by coal gas poisoning.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16122, 10 May 1923, Page 8
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