SUICIDE BY CHINAMAN.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12739, 10 March 1910, Page 4

SUICIDE BY CHINAMAN.

— m [United Pjress Association. j Wellington, March 9. Nang Goo, a Chinaman, aged 48 years, who was a market gardener from Nelson, hung himself this morning from a tree at the back of the premises at No. 24, Haining street. He had been staying with Joe Queen, who last saw him alive at 11 o'clock on Tuesday night, when Nang Goo bade him good-night. He did not hear the deceased get up during the night, though they were sleeping in the same room. On going into his backyard at 5.30 this morning. Queen, saw Nang Goo suspended by a rope fronua tree, four feet from the ground. He severed the rope, but life was extinct. Nang Goo had been in ill-health for some time. He came over from Nelson to. bid good-bj'e to one of his countrymen who was leaving for China. He" had been twelve years in New Zealand. In Nang Goo's pockets were found a pawn ticket for -£1 for his watch, and three shillings and ninepence, also a return ticket to Nelson. Mr Haselden, S.M., held an inquest, and a verdict of "suicide by hanging" was returned.