STRANGE DELUSIONS
YOUNG MAN’S SUICIDE FEARS OF MURDERER (Per Press Associatidn.) AUCKLAND, this day. A verdict, that Eric Reginald Smith, 33, a commercial traveller, threw himself from the top floor of the 'Strand Arcade while in great mental depression was returned at the inquest. Evidence was given that the deceased had been in ill-health, and had been worrying about it. His father said his sou was in a very nervous state, and had delusions that the taxidriver recently murdered resembled him, and that the murderer intended to murder him and not the taxi-driver. That preyed on his mind. He was also under the impression that persons were following him to do him injury.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18236, 3 November 1933, Page 8
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113STRANGE DELUSIONS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18236, 3 November 1933, Page 8
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