SUICIDE AT PICTON
TRAVELLER CUTS HIS THROAT. By Telegraph.—press Association. Blenheim, Last Night. A man named Alexander Mac Lean, aged 54, a commercial traveller representing Messrs. Royd Bros, and Kirk, merchants, of Christchurch, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor this morning in a bedroom at the Terminus Hotel, Pieton. He arrived at Pieton from Blenheim on Saturday evening and went with a fishing party to the Sounds on Sunday, returning in hrs usual normal spirits. During the night he complained of feeling unwell and received some whisky from the licensee, which was not used. The chambermaid found his body this morning in a pool of blood with a razor alongside. He wrote four letters on Sunday, addressed and stamped them, but none gave any indication of the reason for the act. The coroner returned a verdict of suicide, there being no evidence to show the state of deceased’s mind when the act was committed.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 November 1926, Page 7
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