TRAGIC MESSAGE

Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1937, Page 6

TRAGIC MESSAGE

By Telegraph—Press Association.

AUCKLAND MAN'S DEATH "NEVER MEANT FOR LUCK" ,c

Auckland, Aug. 4. "It seems I was never meant to have any luck," was a tragic sentence in a note left by Reuben David Jacobsen, painter, aged 35, found dead in a bedroom ih his house at Morningside on Saturday shortly before noon. , ' A doctor was summoned and found a strong smell of a powerful poison in the room, also in a glass arid on the dead man's lips. At the inquest to-day the widow' gave evidence that her relations with her husband were normally friendly. She was away shopping when his death occurred. He had never stated his intention to take his life. A' step-daughter aged 15 stated that she saw her father return from the city. Later she saw him with a glass containing two lumps of a white substance. He retired to his room, telling her he did not wish to be disturbed. She heard him groan and found him lying on the floor. She called a neighbour, a doctor and the police. > - The coroner found that death was due to suicide by poisoning.