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FARM LABOURER’S SUICIDE. PLANNED ELOPEMENT. By Telegraph—Pre*s AsMjxaiJon. TE AROHA. April 28. Robert Logan (23), a farm labourer, committed suicide by drinking strychnine at the residence of Wickliffe. at Gordon on Saturday evening. At the inquest to-day, evidence was given by Mrs Wickliffe, that Logan who had been nursed by her after an accident in February last, had become over-friendly, and had urged her ix> leave her husband, and go away with him. In anticipation of her consent, he had sent a suit case containing some of her clothes, removed without her knowledge, to the railway station. Logan had been in Te Aroha on Saturday, where he purchased, on the pretext of poisoning rabbits, a bottle of strychnine. In the evening he visited Wickliffe’s home, and after asking for a pad, and writing a letter, which he placed in his pocket, he drank the strychnine. This letter, on the ground that it contained aspersions on someone’s character, the Coroner refused to admit as evidence, and the constable who had discovered it, was not permitted to read it. •
A verdict of death by poison, selfadministered, was recorded.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18554, 29 April 1930, Page 9
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188TOOK STRYCHNINE. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18554, 29 April 1930, Page 9
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