SUICIDE IN CELL
FINDING AT INQUEST By Telegraph—Press Association NAPIER, January 5. Commenting that it was probably a sudden impulse which was difficult "to account for, the Coroner, Mr A. E. Bedford, returned a verdict at the inquest that Edward Frank O'Neill, a Tarawera labourer, died in the police cell at Napier, the cause of death being asphyxiation, due to strangulation, self-inflicted. O’Neill had been found lying on the bunk in the cell at the Napier Police Station at 11 o'clock on Monday night, with a pair of socks knotted tightly round his neck. He had been arrested on Monday on a serious charge, which concerned a small girl.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20928, 6 January 1938, Page 2
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109SUICIDE IN CELL Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20928, 6 January 1938, Page 2
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