HANGING FROM A TREE
YOUNG FARMER’S SUICIDE. PUKEKOHE, September 9. Francis James Booth, a farmer, aged 26, living at Kohanga, was found hanging from a tree 300 yards from his house, by his housekeeper on Sunday. The body was left hanging until the police arrived. At the inquest a verdict of suicide was returned, the Coroner adding a rider that a person finding a body hanging should cut it down and not await the arrival of the police.
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Southland Times, Issue 19345, 10 September 1924, Page 5
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78HANGING FROM A TREE Southland Times, Issue 19345, 10 September 1924, Page 5
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