VERDICT OF SUICIDE
(United Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 14. The Coroner, Mr E. Gilbertson, at an inquest into the death of Alexander James Whitton, aged 23, an accountant, found that he took his own life on April 2 by precipitating himself from the Kelbum Viaduct in Tinakori road when mentally depressed from insomnia, which had caused a nervous breakdown and was mainly responsible for his state of mental depression.
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Southland Times, Issue 23793, 15 April 1939, Page 20
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69VERDICT OF SUICIDE Southland Times, Issue 23793, 15 April 1939, Page 20
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