HANGED BEFORE ALTAR
STRANGE SUICIDE CASIO WASHINGTON, April 26. While monks were chanting vespers in the garden of a Franciscan monastery. Brother Fidelis guided visitors to the chapel and struck a match to show them the altar. The light revealed a shadowy figure swaying beflore the tabernacle. It was the body of Thomas Holden, an officer of the Columbia Unemployment Commission, hanging by a belt from the iron grillwork. Holden had chosen the sacred place for the scene of his suicide.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 4 May 1938, Page 5
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