LETTER DESTROYED
■ direction of CORONER. MINISTER CALLS - FOR REPORT. The New South Wales’Minister for Justice, Mr. Lee, is much perturbed at a recent direction by the Sydney city coroner, Mr. May. that a letter written by a person who committed suicide should be destroyed. He eaid that he had requested the coroner to furnish •him with a report explaining the reasons for his action. , . . .. Mr. Lee added that in his opinion it was a serious matter to destroy documenta of this description. It was the Correct thing to prohibit the publication
of such a letter, but he ‘bought that the coroner should have ordered the letter to be kept for. record purposes m casa it might be required for future The Minister said he understood that maiiv years ago a case of an suicide of a girl had occurred. A letter statin" her intention to destroy her- * self was found on her clothing. Soma time later'the police discovered that the girl had been murdered, and that the letter had been forged.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1930, Page 14
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