HANGED IN CELL
PRISONER OVERCOME BY REMORSE United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, March 21. At the inquest on George Henry Davis, a clerk who hanged himself in Long Bay Gaol, the police stated that on his release from Bathurst Gaol last 3’ear detectives obtained employment for Davis with a city firm and he promised to reform. The firm was very pleased with Davis’s work, but subsequently he commenced to rob his employees and was arrested. The jury recorded a verdict of suitcide, with no blame attachable to the gaol officials. The Coroner said that Davis was probably overcome by remorse. A prisoner on remand, George Henry Davis, forty-six, a clerk, was found banged in his cell at Long Bay Gaol on March 15. Davis was taken into custody on a warrant for his arrest on a charge of having stolen £3 from the Putaruru Pine and Pulp Company of New Zealand, Ltd, He was charged in the Police Court and remanded. A warder on entering the cell found Davis swinging from a ventilator. He had used his necktie and a towel as a rope.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20064, 22 March 1935, Page 9
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185HANGED IN CELL Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20064, 22 March 1935, Page 9
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