SELF MURDER.
CORONER'S RULING
LONDON, May 29
"No man has the right to take his own life. He is committing murder, according to our law." the coronei told Lady Walpole at the inquest at which she nave evidence that her husband. .Sir Charle Walpole. who was found shot at the week-end, recently said that sooner than be a nuisance with a lingering illness he thought anyone would be right to commit suicide. Sir Charles, who was 78 rears of age. becam« peculiar after taking a sunbath without his hat on the afternoon before his dejtli, and a doctor gave. evidence that ' while lie was perfectly healthy thero werrt indications of sunstroke! A verdict of suicide while temporarily insane' was returned.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17057, 11 June 1926, Page 5
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