SUICIDE.
AT WOODBURY. YOUNG MAN HANGS HIMSELF. Word was received yesterday by. Constable Callanan, stationed at Geraldine, that a young man named Frank Muir, 33 years of age, who was working on Mr R, J. McKeown’s farm at Woodbury, had been discovered by his employer hanging on a tree. THE INQUEST. VERDICT OF UNSOUND MIND. The District Coroner, Mr E. Mosley, S.M., held an inquest on'' the body at 4 p.m. yesterday afternoon, at Mr McKeown’s residence, Woodbury. Mr McKeown gave evidence of finding the body hanging in a plantation on his farm, at 9.45 on Friday morning. Evidence of identification was also given by Kyres Quaid, labourer, and by Constable D, . ■Callanan as to examining the body. The Coroner brought in a verdict that death was due to suicide by hanging while of unsound mind.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 10977, 14 August 1926, Page 2
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136SUICIDE. Temuka Leader, Issue 10977, 14 August 1926, Page 2
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